Single parent judgements

[Yellowview]

Just wondering if others feel judged as a single parent? Maybe naively, I did not expect this. But mainly from other women. I feel a few women have become guarded around me when they are with their dh. Recently I have been abroad just me and my children and others in the hotel seem to make effort with couples and their children but not me and my children. I’m approachable generally and not interested in anyone’s husband. I actually have a dp but we do not live together and I don’t put my life on social media etc.

I used to, but I was a teenage parent so when I became a single parent (mid 20s) I was still quite young.

People in general gave me a hard time. They softened when they knew the father was in the picture, but generally it was just shitty all around. I come from a fairly conservative country though, I would have hoped that in the UK women had an easier time, but I think here the stereotype that women have children for benefits is still very much alive.

Yes I feel judged but not for those reasons

To give a bit of perspective on this, I don’t judge single parents, however on holiday I wouldn’t be looking to chat to to socialise with a single parent. I’m there on holiday with my family to spend time with them, if I was to make an effort with others it would be with a couple who had children that we’d then all socialise with together. So in your example I’d say that was just the circumstances rather than judgement from others.

You dont know what they are thinking and you seem to be judging them as much as you think they are judging you

When I am holiday the last think I habe fime for is worrying about thoughts on ther people, and no I have never thought someone is trying to 'steal' my husband, are women that desperate? I give other women more intelligence than that