Chronicling to be a single mother

By C
@ShyBear88 (59347)
Sterling, Virginia
February 7, 2013 9:36pm CST
Would you consider being a single mother by choice? I don't honk I would choice that at all unless things just didn't workout with me and my husband. I do have a girl friend online that has choices that and has 3 boys that she takes care of on her own by choice. She goes to school work and does raise her boys.
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• Kenya
8 Feb 13
Your girl friend is tough and she knows what she wants. At times when a man brings you sadness instead of happiness, you may opt for single motherhood. Well for me, it was not by choice but at least am at peace. The more I think about it, the more I realise that I am better of without my husband. I just dont know how to handle my son yet when the questions start popping about his father. But I will figure it out before he asks, I hope. I also have a friend who wants to be a single mother because she beleives time is running out for her. She is not growing any younger and she wants to make babies. People have different reasons for chossing to be a singel mother.
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
8 Feb 13
I wouldn't do by choice. I'm glad me and my husband are good because it does help having him around. I'm a stay at home mom so I do know how to deal with my two alone but I would hate being away from them all day.
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
11 Feb 13
Sometimes it just takes time to find the right person even if it's not the same person that you've have a child with a lot of the times a different man is the better man. I'm glad I have a great relationship with my husband he will do almost anything for me and our kids. A lot of women do better with out guy always. As long as your happy that is important to having a happy child.
• Kenya
9 Feb 13
I envy you. I wish my husband was around. it is really tough dealing with the pressure, especially from family and friends to get back with my baby's daddy. I don't think am ready to get back with him despite my situation. Am happy!
• United States
10 Feb 13
Yes, I can see how many women want to be mothers But not wives. They just don't want Or need a man in their lives. So they raise their kids alone. Me? I never want kids as you know but I can see how a woman can decide to be a single parent.
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
11 Feb 13
I only have one online mom friend that has picked to be a single mother and just fond someone to have her babies with. She has three boys and the other women a few of them are just single mothers.
• Valdosta, Georgia
8 Feb 13
I am married to my husband so that would not be my choice to be a single mom. I love my husband and I hope to be with him forever. If anything happened between us then I would be a single mother the best I could be but it would definitely not be my first choice. I think the person is strong and a good mother. She is doing what she has to do to take care of her kids nothing wrong with that! =) More power to her!
@shiesse (306)
• Canada
8 Feb 13
I come from a house that my parents stayed together strictly for my sister and I. They no longer loved each other but did not want to raise us in a broken home. It was not any benefit to us. In my opinion it would have been better if they seperated, so I would be a single mother if I no longer loved my husband. I could not put my children through what my life was like, not that it was abusive or anything, my parents loved me a great deal but suffered thus we suffered as well seeing them. I would not want to go out and be a single mom just to be a single mom but I would not stay in a unhappy relationship.
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
8 Feb 13
I wouldn't stay in an unhappy marriage either. Thankfully I do have a good one. It definitely wouldn't be my first choice to be a single mom. I do have friend that choice that and I have others that left there boyfriends/ husband.
• Kenya
8 Feb 13
Your girl friend is tough. not many women can do that. anyway, sometimes women have to make tough decisions in their lives. Some are tougher than others but as a woman, we have got to be strong. Like in my own case, I became a singel mother but it was not out of choice. But looking back now, I think I would advice any woman out there who is with a man who makes them feel bad or worse than when they are alone alone to let hem go. It is better to be peaceful and happy than to stay married and sad. I love my son and I believe he will grow to be a fine man!