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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I threw on my gold, slinky dress, slipped on my knee high leather boots and then topped it off with a long black wig which I’d braided earlier. Part of a group Peter Pan costume, I was Tiger Lily.
“C’mon! Get [...]

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I am a former married single mother.
Which is why I am now an unmarried single mother.
The only difference - I now have half of the laundry and half of the dishes to clean. Seriously. When your husband contributes very little around the house, when you’re the one driving the kids to and from everything and [...]

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they fall hard.
My aunt told me this years ago.
The words didn’t make sense to me at the time. Every man I’d ever dated had been slow to fall or reluctant to fall. I just couldn’t imagine one actually falling as hard as she described, until now…
“I’m crazy about you. I just can’t stop thinking about [...]

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Both of my men (Mr. Man & Benjamin) are on my mind.
For entirely different reasons, but they both have bugs. Mr. Man has the love bug, which I think I’ve caught as well. Definitely contagious in some cases. Benjamin has an ear bug, which I am entirely responsible for fixing.
In regards to that little love [...]

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It’s officially - official.
Mr. Man and I are an item.
But because even uttering the word relationship makes my arm hairs stand on end, not out of joy but out of fear - I’ve decided to do some research. After all, it’s been years since I’ve been in a “real relationship” so I need to brush [...]

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Christine Coppa of Glamour.com’s Storked! recently finished her memoir on becoming a single mother and the title? Rattled! Very appropriate, don’t you think?
Order your advanced copy here.
Like me, Christine, was 26 when she found out she was pregnant. Three months later her boyfriend made it clear he didn’t want to be a part of their [...]

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Stress or maybe just too much to do - constantly running myself in a million directions - has weakened my immune system. Now I have some kind of nasty, nasty virus.
So here I am, flat on my back, unable to walk across a room without severe pain from this nasty whatever it is. My mother [...]

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Benjamin and I went to a dude ranch this weekend.
We started out together.

Then Benjamin demanded to ride by himself. He won over the ranch hand with his powerful persuasion tactics and took the reins.

And here he is, fleeing from me… knowing I was about to haul his butt into the car to head back to [...]

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Snippets from random phone conversations I had tonight between:

Benjamin
my sister
a man who shall remain untalked about,
and my mother.

Guess who said what:

“I had another dream about you last night. This time we were at a coffee shop and this guy gave you all of the day old croissants. You were so excited but that’s because [...]

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He shows up every Tuesday morning to pick up Benjamin.
I gave up asking him about the massive credit card debt of his I had to assume or asking him to help out with Benjamin’s medical bills long ago. Instead I just brief him on Benjamin’s little happenings of the week - he doesn’t know because [...]

Filed under: Divorce & Custody, Forgiving the Ex, The Daily Grind, The Father (My Ex), Uncategorized | 26 Comments »