Just realised how much of a lone parent I am.

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We hear about secondary school places on Monday evening. The only other person who is slightly interested is my boss at work and that's only because we sit near eachother.

I have a nonexistent relationship with my mother and have recently been pushed out of my group of friends by a bully. My other close friend is too wrapped up in her own life to realise what's going on with me.

How do you make new friends? I have tried a few things, but keep hitting a brick wall.

I am in the same position, and although I like my own company, strong minded, etc etc I am a complete lone parent. I have never even got Christmas cards from my family, so they have never been there for us and never will be.

So I have been devoted to my family, but it does mean that making new friends outside work is difficult. Now that I am redundant, I dont see my work friends as much.

Hi Nicecup, it's such a shame so many of us are in this position. I wish I could offer advice. Sorry to hear about your family. My mother is the toxic, it got to the point where her behaviour to us was awful so I stopped contact.

I do enjoy my own company. It just gets too lonely sometimes. .

Sorry to hear about your family, nicecup, ans your mother, rcdc. What are your relationships with dc's fathers like? Mine is extremely strained, in fact we had a large and pointless argument today :(

Oh sorry you had an argument with your ex, I bet its so stressful. I'm kind of lucky in a way as although I would love for my daughter to have contact, hes not interested.

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That's hard in a different kind of way. Half of me wishes he would just eff off since he is never going to be a good father, the other half hopes he will sort himself out. I just can't see that happening, unfortunately

Hi Monet, how are you?

It's horrible either way I think Liz. I am hoping that one day my ex will want to be involved more. But I way I see it he has missed out.

Absolutely. As a single parent you get all the hard bits but you get the wonderful bits as well. I know who I'd rather be

Exactly and at least we won't have regrets when they are adults. Although being a lone parent is hard we always get over the bad times.