Tell me about the amazing women you know IRL

[SuddenlyOld]

Sometimes I think we forget how amazing women are.

Tell me about the women in your life who you think are doing a great job.

I have a friend who had to have her arm amputated days after giving birth. Her husband left her once her arm had healed. Her newborn is now an adult and my friend has her own business. She's done it all on her own as a single parent. Every now and then I try to get myself dressed using one hand (kind of showing solidarity) and, bras? I really don't know how she's done it (of course she had no choice). But she really is amazing.

My mother in law
She met and married my fil,had two kids (boy,my dp and girl)
Dd was fine until she turned 7 and said she was struggling to see the blackboard at school
One hell of a long story short,she had something called battens disease
She slowly went blind,and brain damaged and then died
My mil nursed her,dealt with (darling) fils drinking and smoking lifestyle,brought up dp into the amazing man he is and held down a job and ran the household
Years later fils lifestyle caught up with him,he got ill with cancer and died-she nursed him to the end
She is the most amazing and strong woman I've ever met-she's always there for us,she never interferes and we utterly adore her

I had a friend nina-she was the product of married to other people and an affair
She was given up at birth to a shitty Foster mother who abused her
She grew up,married an abusive man,had 3 kids and he used them as bait to abuse her some more when she left him
She then went looking for her birth mother-and when she found her bm told her to 'fuck off-i hate you'
She met another man,and another dc and set out to help others
And she did just that-she ran a single mums group and her support was amazing-my dc remember her fondly
She ended up getting cancer,was pissed about by the very people who where meant to help her and her then boyfriend told her to 'hurry up and die bitch'
We lost her-she was one of the most supportive,kind,generous and caring women I've ever met
We miss her so much

One of the school mums. I don't know her very well but talk to her now and again. When I first met her I thought she was a bit rough but I'm ashamed about how I judged her. She has 3 young autistic children, 2 with stoma bags. They have a lot of issues and she's constantly in and out of hospital with them. Anyone would be worn out by that but she just keeps going and doing ber best. She fights for the best education and health care for her children. I often want to tell her she is an amazing mother but that would probably be a bit weird.

@Yozzer87 tell her she's an amazing mother. It's not weird at all. For her to be seen will mean so much to her.

I think you should tell her! Not weird in the slightest

My mum. She raised me and my 3 brothers (alongside my dad) and is now a foster carer. She's looked after multiple kids over the last 10 years and even had 4 teenagers at one point. She also helps out with her grandkids a lot.

She is not just providing a roof over the fosters kids heads but she actually puts time and effort into preparing them for adult life and she will fight with social workers/schools/councils for what's right for these kids.