Hello All, reaching out as feeling the stress and annoyance of single parenting with zero support. We are only two (my son is almost 10 yrs age and we live abroad; his father isn't in the picture at all). I did have a family that we hung out with a lot; the parents were nice people, but their way of raising their kid and how I raise mine are very different (they had zero discipline for theirs) so I really had to part ways as their kid's bad behaviour was undermining my reasonable rules at home: don't steal my mobile phone from my pocket, listen when the answer is no to putting yourself in danger, and lots of other things. However even though I cultivate healthy friendships for him my kid is still a brat! I really can't stand/hate him. After I have reasonably reprimanded him, he then wants to sleep with me, I sleep horribly as I am not comfortable with sharing my bed with my nearly 10 year old, (having to get him to move over in the middle of the night). This causes me to sleep badly and feel grumpy the next day for the next battle against his stupidity. He continually invites people to our small home and then when they come he acts like an asshole on steroids. I hate him/can't stand him! I don't even have verbal support from family in the U.K when we visit, if I fairly reprimand my son, not one family member says a single supportive word to back me up. the whole thing is exhausting. I can't wait till he leaves home/gives me peace. He tells me almost every day he loves me/best Mum in the world, bla bla bla. Is he spoiled, is this normal; will this pass?