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Thursday, 30 November 2023 - 20:55
Can i please have some advice, tips, suggestions from other single mums of boys who don't have much of a support system around them? My son is 11 & cannot see his dad for safety reasons. My parents are very actively in his life but that's it, i'm an only child & his dads side are MIA. I'm...
Wednesday, 22 November 2023 - 12:14
Edit: Thanks for telling me I'm doomed, that its just as simple as working more. We have NO repayments on anything, NO credit cards. My son is high needs so working more than I do is actually not possible right now. I'm paying thousands of dollars for assessments for him, no NDIS. Its freaking hard...
Tuesday, 24 October 2023 - 16:49
I'm a newly separated parent. There was dv and there are charges underway. I'm currently in the process of seeking trauma counseling. I'm unsure what the general way of doing things is. If my child's father abused me, mentally physically and at one point sexually is it wrong of me to not want them...
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Submitted by The Imperfect Mum on Mon, 12/01/2015 - 14:09.
Perfection does not exist – yet as mothers so many of us are all striving for it. We’re all putting so much pressure on ourselves and placing so much emphasis on the “shoulds”... We should always enjoy motherhood. We should always want to ‘give’ to our kids even when there’s nothing left to give. We should be present and ready to engage, play and be there for our kids 100% of the time. We should...
Submitted by The Imperfect Mum on Tue, 09/12/2014 - 13:30.
Do you find your eyes watching other mothers and hear a little voice in your head saying, “She is so, so much better at this whole motherhood thing than me.” I do. All. The. Time. I know we shouldn’t compare. But we do, right? As sad and embarrassing as it is to admit... But why, I wonder? Why do we compare and judge ourselves so much? I mean... I’m a confident, generally self-assured person so...
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 14/09/2013 - 19:01.
This is a FAQ post. These are the most popular answers to a real question asked on The Imperfect Mum. A bit of a hard question to put into words. Lately I’m feeling like i’m now just “his wife” and “her mother” – I’m feeling like I’ve lost who I used to be. I used to be a fairly social independant woman and now I feel as though I have somehow been robbed of my independance. I have an 8 month old...