Mar 31, 2015 | Guilt and Self-Loathing, The Ex
My ex husband was never really meant to be a dad and I struggle with that every day. He hightailed it out of town the minute our divorce was final and ran off to Florida for six months with his mistress. Aside from Christmas, he didn’t see the kids the whole...
Mar 26, 2015 | Guilt and Self-Loathing
I have full custody of my kids and I work. As much as I encourage my ex husband to participate more in their lives, he claims he’s just too busy working. I get that I guess, since I have worked 3+ jobs at a time for most of my single-parent career. Primarily...
Mar 24, 2015 | Friendships, Social Life
I’m convinced that Facebook is intended to show me all the things my childless friends can do that I can’t. I had my kids late in life and my peers who had theirs at an age appropriate time are now on their own, traveling the globe, and enjoying an...
Mar 20, 2015 | Friendships
Anyone who says that having children doesn’t effect adult friendships is clearly childless. For me, pre-divorce friendships were pretty simple and drama free. As a married couple with kids, we enjoyed the company of other couples with kids. There were no issues...
Mar 19, 2015 | Guilt and Self-Loathing
All parents who aren’t of the narcissistic persuasion have guilt. Some of it real, some of it imagined. Under the category of “imagined,” I suffer from the usual varieties of working parent issues including lack of time, lack of money and lack of...
