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 Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 5:22 am
cerebral, that's just sad.
I wouldn't call it a good morning. My son woke up early and is right now pitching a fit because I won't let him wake up my parents. confused
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 6:20 am
Burnt Glitter I'm a single mom. I live with my parents though. So, it helps some. My son loves my dad and has never met his real dad. He seems to think that my dad is his dad though. It's cute.
It gets frustrating, but I think have my son was well worth it.
I had no idea you were in
almost the same situation
as me ^_^
Well, I had Nath 6 months
ago now (goes so fast!)
and when he was a couple of
months old, I had enough of
his father and decided to
finally end our relationship.
I have been so much happier
now since that happened. I
didn't cry over him once. I
suppose thats a good sign!
Nath and I don't miss him.
My mother definately doesn't
miss him. Although there's
the added stress of the fact
that he's giving all these
promises of taking me to court
so he can have him over his
house every weekend. I don't
need that.
I haven't heard from him for
months. I did agree that it
would be a fab idea if he could
come to my house to see lil' Nath
but it wasn't good enough for him.
Now he's been absent for so long,
the less I want him around. Infact,
I with he would just disapear. I
don't feel safe walking around our
local town just in case I run into
one of his family.
Now though, things seem brighter.
I've met a lovely man who is
responsible, kind, calm and loves me
and Nath. I feel very lucky.
Though I worry that love is blind.
Ah well. Mum seems to like him! He
can't be that bad! Fingers crossed!!
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:06 am
Yeah, D's other half was threatening to try and apply for full custody. The jerk didn't care about D obviously though because he doesn't call.
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 11:12 pm
Individual states have different rules re: Child Support/Visitation. In WA state: they're separate, they can still see their children even if they never pay a dime. Although it's my understanding that in CA, if a parent hasn't paid, or attempted to pay child support in a six month stretch, they'll lose visitation rights.
Some of my friends have had the issue of never seeing any money from the ex, and yet the kids absolutely adore him/her because every time that parent has them they spend a bunch on 'em. Hello, that's the money that should be going to the custodial parent to help buy food, clothes, etc.
Though kids aren't dumb, they figure it out fairly quickly.
To Uni, yes, how dare we expect them to pay back for the cost to take care of these children... as if they should not have to be responsible. And hey, since we were, they should just be let off the hook. rolleyes
My 11 year old's dad has at least two other children from other relationships that I'm aware of, though I didn't know that when we were together. He lied consistently throughout our relationship, and his mother and sister agreed with these lies. After he left, when I was 5 months pregnant and left with a huge stack of bills, his step-mom called looking for him. After a long phone discussion, I was shocked to learn that pretty much everything he'd told me was a lie. Lies his mother and sister had listened to him tell, and hadn't clued me in at all. evil
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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 7:28 am
Yay, I get to be the discipline person. rolleyes
I'm still trying to convince my parents that if they want D to behave they have to discipline him too. If not he's going to end up just like my cousin Bink.
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 7:48 am
I'm not a parent at all, but somehow I got welcomed into this guild. sweatdrop
I just want to say that I respect you and all other single parents. Especially mothers. I don't know how you can do it with all the other things you must do. Finding a job, continuing with college. That's gotta be really tough on you.
I support you always.
God Bless.
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:07 am
Soory I've been gone so long. It's not like anyone has missed me; but I haven't been on in a couple of days. So, I've been trying to get some things together with my life like school and work.
My son's father just left for Switzerland yesterday and won't be back until September. I start work and school in Aug and I dont know exactly how Im going to work that out with no car; but that's the life of a single parent.
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 3:11 pm
Actually I was wondering where you were. Yeah the no car thing can be kind of hard, but I'm sure you can do it. It'll just take a little more effort.
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:35 pm
I live in Florida. It's hurrican season now so you never know when its going to pour down raining and the bus runs every 45 minutes to and hour. I used to live in NY where the transportation system was much better. It's going to be hard; but some people have it much worse. I think I can manage it.
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:19 pm
Maryland was like that. Luckily my aunt helped me get a car. It's not a great car, but hey it works when I need it.
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:44 pm
You can try posting on freecycle seeing if someone either posts a car they don't want or post you need one. I know people do it on my local one, there's always a chance someone might be nice!
I hope the hurricane season simmers down.
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:19 am
I was watching the weather the other day and they said the actual hurricane season hasn't even begun yet and we've already had one and another one is supposed to be on its way. I hope it isn't going to be too bad this season. I'll try that site and see what happens, thanks.
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:33 am
Hopefully it won't be bad like last year. I know there are places that are still rebuilding from last year.
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 8:54 pm
yeah it could be much worse.
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 9:21 pm
I heard. This is one of the many reasons I refuse to live that far south. I was effected by one while living in Maryland. We only lost power for a week though. It wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't been pregnant at the time though. sweatdrop
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