Single Moms: You Go Girl
Being single mom is no easy feat. It doesn’t matter how old your kids get, once you are their mom, you will always be your mom. Changing diapers, driving them to ballet class, wearing the traditionally ugly “mother of the bride” dress… it’s all part of the job.
So what happens when you get lonely? Kids can only fill so many “love voids,” as I like to call them. What would any normal woman do? Date.
With an exceedingly high divorce rate, motherhood among single women is at a near all-time high. Depressing as those stats may sound, let’s take a walk on the bright side, shall we?
Being a mom isn’t the most flexible of all jobs. Being a single woman…kind of is. So the balance of being a mom who only does what’s best for her kid(s) and being a single woman who only does what’s best for her… well, let’s just say it’s a hard balance to overcome and maintain. Perfecting it is like perfecting riding a unicycle in a matter of 20 minutes.
Over the course of 20 years, I know a woman who is just now beginning to grasp the concept and run with it: my mom. She is a mother of three young women ages 24, 21, and 12. She is also actively dating and working and generally being awesome.
I just wanted to recognize my mom, and women like her, who have not given up on romantic love after having it lost or taken away and being left only with her children to keep her warm at night.
At the risk of sounding like my “hip” 50-year-old mom, “you go girl.”
