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Chronicles of the Determind Divorcee — Blasting Society’s Outdated Views on Divorce and Single Parenthood into Space
As I have gotten older and left the nest of stay-at-home parent life, I have learned a lot. When I divorced my ex-husband, I learned even more. Lessons came at me like arrows, arrows containing situations that were difficult or exhausting or frustrating. I had to grit my teeth, shielding myself and my kids from the arrows and keep our family going on my own.
Since I’ve found myself in this situation as a divorced mother with children, I want to change society’s views on divorced and/or single parents.
I am tired of being targeted, of being shamed, and of being made to feel less than just because the father of my children did bad things and absconded his responsibilities. That’s not my problem, that’s his.
But I am the one who stepped up.
Meaning, our children are now only MY children. My ex-husband gave up the right to be a father a long time ago.
I’m a successful person. I have risen above difficult circumstances, met the needs of my children and then some, do therapy so I’m taking care of myself, earned a college degree, and found a job that will potentially lead to other opportunities.
