My whole life has been turned upside down in the last 6 months. Basically to cut a long story short I was living in a nice apartment with my husband and little DDabroad in a country where I could afford a full time nanny, flying high in my career that I have been doing for 17 years (I'm a teacher). Then in May i found out my husband had been having an affair and he left me for the other woman. Subsequently my mum became ill and she passed away suddenly at the beginning of October before I could get back to the UK to see her, which feels so so fucking tragic and unfair. She didn't even meet DD who is 2, as we were unable to travel due to covid.
Now I am in the UK, staying in my dad's cramped little house as a single parent, with no job and nowhere to live. So things are already monumentally shit.
What's more, I have realised that I don't think I can physically work as a teacher, as I would need to be at work at the latest at 7.45 (was used to getting to work at 7.15) and there is no childcare available early enough unless I can afford a nanny, which I really can't. So it looks as though I will have to change career as well, at least for the moment while DD is little.
Am I wrong in this? How do other single parents do it? Feeling so low and anxious at the moment, I'm not in control of any part of my life..