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noche · 01/05/2008 23:35

Bit late really to start this but I can't sleep....just wanted to know if any of you other single mums ever feel lonely and if so what do you do about it? Just thinking about it really cos of bank holiday weekend coming up and hearing everyone's plans for weekends away "en famille" made me feel a bit out of the loop IYSWIM.

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copingvquietly · 04/05/2008 22:23

im fine.psycho idi sthis to me!

misscathcart · 04/05/2008 22:36

ah well thats ok then . I did happen to notice your I got wine thread just now - I should have joined you earlier!

copingvquietly · 04/05/2008 22:38

she can haev my boy tororrmow.im fukced!

misscathcart · 04/05/2008 22:40

you'll be fine - just drink plenty of water!!
The only person I've spoken to today is the fucking man in the off license! Phone hasn't rang. I text exh to see how dd was as she wasn't well this moring with a cold and he's not taliking to me either - just replied 'fine'
bastard selfish twat

copingvquietly · 04/05/2008 22:42

all men are basstards.we shuold cul.

charliecat · 04/05/2008 22:42

lol at where this thread has ended up...and only talking to the man at the offlicence

misscathcart · 04/05/2008 22:45

well perhaps thats what life comes down to ! lol
and it obviously does - on some days!

charliecat · 04/05/2008 22:54

Was the man at offlicence worth talking too? Cull all men? FINE idea

misscathcart · 04/05/2008 22:56

oh yes, well worth it - he gave me wine and approved my solo card
the best thing a man has done for me in ages...

charliecat · 04/05/2008 22:59

[snort] i mean ive been to the offlicence too!!!!!!!!!

singledadofthree · 04/05/2008 23:00

i heard that - cull all men?

and i hardly ever get here these days - was just gonna say how i get lonely too, am bored with singledom - better than falling prey to mn hit squad tho

charliecat · 04/05/2008 23:03

We could abuse you first, are you offering to be our first victim?

copingvquietly · 04/05/2008 23:05

il do it!

singledadofthree · 04/05/2008 23:05

depends what you have in mind - youd better fight your way to the front of the queue
on second thoughts i tend to come close to being strung up whenever i wander on here

misscathcart · 04/05/2008 23:07

charlie! don't scare the lad! yet.
We'll be gentle sd...

singledadofthree · 04/05/2008 23:08

'the lad' - i think i like you

charliecat · 04/05/2008 23:09

Good god, fighting my way to front of queue? Havent the energy, ill telly flick and leave you lot to get on with it

misscathcart · 04/05/2008 23:10

ah well you can return the compliment old chap!

Twoddle · 04/05/2008 23:14

Am with misscathcart on this. I'm OK with the evenings on my own most of the time - pottering, doing my own thing, the quiet. But sometimes, out of nowhere, I get this terribly lonely feeling - that no-one-would-notice-if-I-disappeared feeling. And it sucks. Not all the time. But sometimes.

I, too, find weekends the worst. I have one single friend, who lives an hour away. All my other friends are just settling into married life/having kids, just as I've got off that wagon! And I feel I'm intruding if I see them at weekends - and it hurts to see others living the kind of life I really wanted. I feel sooo lucky to have my parents close by, and DS (3) and I basically move in there for weekends. It's just having other people milling about while you're doing your own stuff that feels comforting.

DS doesn't do weekends with Dad yet. He doesn't want to. But I know, in time, that he will, and I know I will find that tough, lonely, especially if I have no one other than Mum and Dad to descend on when the time comes. I hate it, when I didn't want this situation, that I have to relinquish my son for huge chunks of time to a life that has nothing to do with me, and which I don't particularly wish to know anything about.

Oh well. Am at my parents' place tonight, and they're fantastic, so I shall just feel grateful for that. Thinking of all of you.

charliecat · 04/05/2008 23:18

I descend on Rickman/Harman when we dont have our kids. We go out, sometimes, or sit in drinking wine eating shite and telly watching, tis nice to do nothing with someone
I have a male friend to cuddle up with every few weeks which takes the edge off the lonelyness. He makes me tea in the morning and I am EVER so grateful...even if I have got up at 3am to make him a bacon sarnie! Its just those nicetys i miss
Mumsnet - Lifeline.
As well as MSN.

singledadofthree · 04/05/2008 23:23

rickman!? i remember her from ages ago if the same one.

oh and miss cath - you do sound so young and sweet - tho i bet not a bit gentle

charliecat · 04/05/2008 23:24

Yes shes so bloody busy being uber mom she rarely gets online Tis devestating

misscathcart · 04/05/2008 23:25

there are some good positives in there for both
thats great! Cuddles are worth their weight in gold, you don't realise until you go days or weeks without one

misscathcart · 04/05/2008 23:26

oh yes sd, ever so young and terribly, terribly sweet

singledadofthree · 04/05/2008 23:29

a few weeks? - i wish, has been way too long.

and how is rickman and tribe? ok i hope.

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