Can I pop in here for a bit of support..not technically a lone parent full time but.....

[IneedacleanerIamalazyslattern]

DH works away and is away 23 days and home for 5 at the moment and I am struggling.
I feel like a single parent, DH will probably never work close to home again and he is away more than he is here.
I am permenantly shattered, DS is a poor sleeper and cannot speak yet and extremely frustrated when he cannot make hmself understood so is having some super tantrums which in trn is causing dd to play up to get a bit of attention.
I am feeling torn in different directions and any routine has just gone out the window which is just making my chaos at home worse. My house is a tip and I just cannot seem to get back on top of it.

I am not very good at telling people I need help it makes me feel vulnerable and open and that is something I am not very good at but I am stressed to my ears and could cry at times.

I know I am not really a lone parent but I thought you lovely people may understand a bit how I feel, I find it so hard sometimes doing it all on my own any tips on how to pul it all back together and get a bit of control back in my life?

You wanna know something about being a lone parent, Im not having a go, but just to give you something that will make you think differently about things.

I had to stay in hospital for a whole week for an operation to my kidney, last year, just moved into the area a year before, had to contact Social Services to find foster parents to have my son for a week, and that was a real fight as the social workers changed as bed sheets, every week there was a new one assigned to my case. They found a lovely couple to have my tod, but lived miles and miles away. I it wasn't for the group support that I met in the area, with lifts in the car and picking me up from hospital, and taking my tod to nursery every morning while I could barely walk, I don't know what would Ive done!
Yes I know you must feel lonely and fed up sometimes but you do have someone there for you, you do and that my friend is a whole breath of fresh air, when things go wrong!
Just think about that.