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Mental Health
70 Silent Thoughts of a Single Mother Struggling
Not just twice the tears and twice the fears to deal with
They say a mother has the weekly workload equivalent of 2.5 full-time jobs, so does that make a single mother’s work, equate to 5 full-time jobs? I’d easily think so!
Below are random thoughts that have popped up into my head over a few weeks, some recurring, some solitary.
Each one of them has resulted in me wanting to write something about them but then I thought, why not just put them down as is, a mental thought — because there sure as hell are many of those when you have nobody around to share them with.
Rather than elaborate, you can see what they involve in all their simplicity!
“Bloody hell! When did the price of those go up?”
“Please, please God, I have to make sure life is better once she has to go to school, or she’ll be bullied.”
“How much more patient must I be? When will things get easier?”
“I’ve worked harder this year than I can actually prove, which is very demeaning from those asking!”
“Flexible hours? My ass!”
