I'm on my own with a DC, now a teenager. And I come from a background without parents, or at least supportive parents. And I never really get to have a Mother's Day, in the way that I see it portrayed and we and hear about. Just wondering whether anyone else is in the same boat.
I can organise something for me and my DC. I can buy things for myself, that they wrap, but that's a bit odd. My DC is now at an age where they eye roll if I suggest doing something they don't want to do. They've never been that aware that Mothers Day is a thing, or at least there hasn't been anyone else there teaching them that it's something I might get. And in a way they've lost out too.
I know some single parents whose parents make sure something happens, that they get celebrated. But I don't have that.
It is just something I have to suck up and can't change, and have to suppress in terms of being hurt by not having it, and seeing lots of other people have it. Sometimes in terms of, multiples generations of a family. Just like all the other things I have to suck up, without anyone seeing or caring how I feel. I kind of feel like I live outside society, just watching it.