to be amazed at how single parents cope

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DH has been away for 4 days and I have been looking after the DC on my own. They are 14 and 18 and great and really helpful, but it has been so much harder on my own!

I work FT and they are at school, so out of the house most of the time, but DS1 is off to uni in September and so school work is pressing, DS2 is starting GCSE's in September and so the same.

Nothing extra special or drastic, just honestly hats off to those who do this day in day out

Well some of us do appreciate the acknowledgement

The acknowledgment is fine.

OP explicitly said that the issue she saw was not around challenges of income & decision-making, (which many of us said were hard), just needing 'hands on help' (in terms of single parenthood). Her very limited experience of a few nights without her partner did not mean she gained even a tiny insight into what it means to be a single parent.

It's fine to acknowledge it's hard for single parents. What riled some of us was OP suggesting she understood single parenthood a little (even a little!) because she spent a few days on her own with 2 teens.

I have been a lone parent for nearly 10 years. I always appreciate it when someone acknowledges how tough and relentless it is for us.

So what why is it a bad thing? I appreciate any acknowledgment of the struggles.