Do you find people treat you differently now you are single?

[niece]

lots of people who i used to be friends with, now treat me differently especially when they are with their other halves!

It's like i am gonna pounce on them or something, Does anyone else have this problem?
Also if random people find out i am single, they sometimes speak to me like i have done something wrong!

Whats wrong with being on my own, it's much better than staying in a violent relationship!

skyatnight I agree, it's almost impossible to talk about being a single parent without the urge to justify it somehow or add excuses etc.

I know, lets all think of suitable answers to those small-talk questions we all dread that don't involve feeble justifications and pathetic voices!

I feel another thread coming on.....

Ok tada! started one here

Oh yes,especially in the playground! My daughter started school in Sept,and when the other mums ask me about my husband,I say,well,my ex boyfriend and I are separated!
(Chock horror! The woman's unmarried and she is single!No,her daughter certainly cannot go on a play date with my child,what about my reputation!lol)
You can see their attitudes changing just in that instant,like they think I'm going to come and steal their husbands away or something (sorry,but non of them would be my type by miles anyway! I'm more into Andre 3000 than the David Brent lookalikes most of them are married to).It's absolutely crazy!It's like a disease,definetly,one other single mum pretends she's got a husband that works away,just so that she'll fit in,come on,what is there to be ashamed of? I know for a fact that any woman,happily married or not can become a single mum at any time,no relationship is ever safe.Not being cynical,but I was in a relationship for over 12 years,and never thought I'd become a single mum (but tbh,now I am it's like-Yes!I'm loving life now and you did me a favourleaving me!,when I think of my ex,lol)

I work, and some people I work actually look down their noses at me. Or pity me, which is even worse.

im really good at my job though, so why cant they admire me for that? I find it so annoying, especailly as some women without kids get really, really stressed over trivial stuff, and are unable to cope with many things. But these are the ones who look down their nose at me? I dont understand it

Im a single mum too.. been separated 6 years. I read in a magazine once that married women are scared of us because theyre afraid we want to steal their husbands!

Any man with half a brain would have an affair with a married woman not a single one. If all he's after is nookie that is. So it's illogical for married women to worry about single women stealing their men.

I mean - if I wanted to have an affair purely for the sex I'd choose a married one over a single one for the obvious reason that the married one had more to lose if the affair came to light and a single man might have many more expectations about me leaving my hubby etc etc and going to live with him.

Not gonna have an affair though, am just saying.