When women are unkind

We’ve been emailing back and forth this week with a single mom about an issue we’ve never talked about at Singlemommyhood. It’s a tough one, but also something that has touched both of us deeply. This mom, Kim, tells us about how, after her marriage ended, she started to open up and make new friends. [...]

My mom judges me

“My mom is driving me crazy,” a single mom in her late 20s recently wrote to us. We wonder if this sounds familiar to any of you: This woman became a single mom three years ago, after she caught her husband having an affair. Today, she has a son who’s thriving in kindergarten and a [...]

Are your kids dating, but you’re not?

“My thirteen year old daughter has just started dating–  or whatever the middle school kids call it.” A single mom recently shared this difficult dilemma with us. She went onto say: “Instead of feeling proud and happy that my little girl is growing up, I’m resentful. I find fault with every boy she mentions. And [...]

To the married moms who envy us: how about a truce?

When “my babies” were growing up I realized that the harshest critics of “singlemommyhood” were often married moms (ouch!). I’ll never forget the one mom who always seemed to work something about my divorce into our playground conversations. Her comments went something like this: “Your kids are really great despite the fact that you’re divorced.” [...]