Do you worry that you won’t be able to provide a balance for your child as he or she grows up and misses a father figure? Some of you are full-time solomothers, single parents without significant involvement from your child’s father (and, I suspect, there are some solodads who lurk and read here; know I […]
When we first were married, neither of us could remember what life had been like before ‘us’. Now that it has all fallen apart, I can’t remember what brought us together in the first place. I have no idea who that man sleeping in our daybed is.
Our son is glad to see his papa. […]
It seems we’ve fallen into another golden time we’ll look back on when we’re older–with fondness and nostalgia, I hope. I’m a lucky single mother.
When I was a little girl, my father would take me to Doc Dalinsky’s over on Wisconsin and O Streets. It was a pharmacy, an old fashioned drugstore, where Nettie who […]
Ike and Amy both brought up an interesting point in response to my post yesterday about the Boston Globe article on the emerging trend of single fathers heading up the household.
In a word: huh?
Now, I know that marriages don’t just break all by themselves. And I know that men aren’t always to blame for the […]
Listen up, single moms. I’ve got a story to tell. It’s got a big lesson right up front: careful what you say. It might come round and bite you on the ass.
Someone in my family isn’t speaking to me, for good reason. I opened up my big mouth and said a whole bunch of stuff […]
You don’t have to be a a close reader of SoloMother to get the hint: I’d like to combine families with someone to share the burdens and joys of single parenthood. We’re not meant to live in a vacuum, and trying to take care of children, home and career all by one’s self is less […]
It’s been a rough five months. I suppose if anyone at work googles my name, they will know a bit about what I go through every day, but I try to keep my personal life out of the office. Really I do. But on Thursday I have to take the King of Everything to the […]
I wished, not for the first time, that the King of Everything’s father lived closer. They have their own relationship, and the KoE is getting better about expressing what he does and does not like, and how he expects to be treated. I hope he can continue to do so, as he grows up, in […]
You know, in between the death of my aunt and the new job and the grueling schedule we have now, you’d think I’d be moaning and groaning, dooming and glooming. Nope. Let’s add to the mix the phone call I got this morning for the KoE’s dad, who had found a fabulous, last minute deal […]
It’s the wee small hours of the morning that are the hardest for me. If I don’t get to bed by nine in the evening, I catch a second wind and am up until 1AM, rattling around the house, thinking too much.
Being a single parent, I find I’m a prisoner in my own home after […]
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