If you’ve never been a single parent you’ll never know how lonely and isolating being a single parent is.
& your partner working out of town, etc is not the same thing because you still have someone else to lean on financially, mentally, emotionally.
My child never returned home from the fourth grade because people in Texas love guns over children…So, if you’re wondering how life in a red state is …..
grief never goes away. the loss of someone’s presence simply becomes easier to accept with time. just because you accept this loss, it doesn’t mean it hurts less. things will remind you of them - it’s okay to cry or feel sad no matter how long it’s been.