What did you hope for out of life? - Single Parents

[Willow]

sweetseven I so get what you're saying! It wasn't a goal as a younger person but it's one of my kind of dream type goals to have enough land to have an organic self sufficient lifestyle!

Bunnyhugs, I would never be able to say something like that even though it's just the teensiest white lie. I am hopeless at lying and nobody ever believes me when on the odd occasion I've tried!

Lovemyfam, that is really the loveliest thing to read. Your husband must be a really special person.

Don't worry about me not having a bit of a go at this situation lovely ladies! I'm not remotely ready to embark on anything romantic yet and this guy has a girlfriend. It's more about feeling something normal like an attraction to someone after all the hurt negative feelings I've harboured over the past few years. I'm pretty stoked that somewhere in it all I've managed to heal some of the hurt enough to actually notice someone of the other sex!

[LizMaya]

I grew up feeling the same way too. Its crap.

[BbBbBh]

I expected to feel like a full time mum not a part time mum where my son is away from me 2 nights a week. I hate that feeling . (Just feeling a little sorry for myself and the kids today).

[Theboys&me]

I expected to feel like a full time mum not a part time mum where my son is away from me 2 nights a week. I hate that feeling . (Just feeling a little sorry for myself and the kids today).

Yeah it sucks hey. I feel so homesick lately when my boys aren't here.

[Willow]

:'( Theboys and Bb and Liz also.

My boys have been going once night a week for a little over a year and I still feel like crying sometimes. Other times I plan to do something - although mostly I don't actually do it because my 15 year old is such a tight ar!se that he won't let me go and spend any money on anything. Then we watch an old DVD or something. He won't even let me get a kebab to go halves with him. *shakes head* what has the world come to??

Small whinge about to transpire: In August last year the ex's sister told my 10 year old that if he could earn $50 before Christmas then she would give him $50 for Christmas. The catch was that he had to earn it doing chores for the ex. To give you an idea of the pay rate, he could earn $2 for mowing the lawn. Don't get me started on 10 year olds mowing lawns because my thoughts are not pretty...

The wee one managed this feat somehow so took his $100 to buy a skateboard. The ex, seeing his newfound child slave slipping away from him, talked the wee one into borrowing $125 off him to purchase a skateboard that cost $225 with the same conditions in place. After six months of four hours of chores every weekend, the wee one broke down in hurt and frustration as he still owed $90 so I had a quiet word with the ex and it was decided that he could pay back the money owed with his own money rather than by working his butt off at the slave camp.

This is one of those situations that makes me so sad that my wee ones still want to go to his place even though he hurts them so