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I’ve been thinking about the ways we don’t think we measure up. That we think we aren’t enough. That you just aren’t “cutting the mustard” in your life whether it be with your family in your role as parent or child, your career, your social or financial status, or even with your aspirations, your dreams.
By now, if you read my writing, you get that I am a single parent. I am a widow. (Checking that box for the first time is laser printed in my memory.) I actually don’t like that term, “single parent” for me. It implies that I am just single, not married to my childrens’ other parent when in fact I am, yes, sadly single but more accurately I am an “only parent.” There is no other parent. I am it.
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well said. 