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Started by PrincessMum at 18-10-2008 4:15 PM. Topic has 2 replies.

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  18-10-2008, 4:15 PM
PrincessMum is not online. Last active: 1/4/2009 8:42:17 AM PrincessMum

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After 4.5 yrs with my partner, he decided it was time to leave as it wasn't the life he wanted anymore! Despite the fact we had a 3.5 yr old son, 6 month old baby, house and he had only recently proposed to me and booked our wedding!!! Apparently he didn't love me anymore, felt too tied down etc so that was it, obviously thought the grass was greener. Then 2 weeks later I found out he was seeing the woman he sits next to at work. She also had a son who was 10, was in her second marriage and left her husband for him - so alot to deal with between them.
Anyway things got worse for me as just 3/4 weeks after he left, I collapsed at home one evening and was admitted onto an emergency ward in the hospital where I found out I had Gallstones/Pancreatitis and Pneumonia - I got so bad at one point I spent time on HDU and almost had tubes put into my lungs - but thoughts of my children and getting home to them as soon as I could gave me the determination to fight through it and so after 10 days went home to my parents house to recover, as I could no longer face the home we had been in with him.
The doctors told me that I would need an operation very soon to remove my gallbladder completely so before that I managed to find a home exchange with a little 2 bed flat near my parents and friends and took that. I then had surgery to remove my gallbladder and from there on things have just got better.
The thing that saddens me is that my ex-partner was hardly there at all for his kids through any of this - my parents had to look after them whilst I was poorly in hospital meaning they could not support me so spent alot of time alone and scared in hospital, and he still cannot bring himself to spend too much time with them now. 1 day at the weekend at the very most and sometimes goes for 2/3 weeks without seeing them with different excuses each time, he has done things like letting the kids meet his new partner behind my back, so I really have become a single mum!! Despite that I am doing very well with my career and work 4 days a week in a PA role which I love. It pays well and gives me some 'ME' time. The kids love the new nursery they are at and I also am lucky to have parents that help out with babysitting when I want to socialise with my friends. I have lost weight, got a new hairstyle and been the best mum that I can be, so I am finally happy and my ex-partner now makes jealous digs at me all the time saying stuff like - you have money, you go out, you've got the kids, everytime I see you, you have new clothes - and my reply is simply 'what do you want me to do, sit around and cry over you? I don't think so!!'
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  06-11-2008, 11:25 AM
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Good on you princess mum. you have given me encouragement.

Me and my husband had been engaged for two years and we had in April although unplanned we were both happy about having a baby. We decided to get married in June and these were all exciting times for us. 6 weeks after our wedding, my husband decided to do internet dating. Through all this he was lying to the girls he was not married and neither did he have children. I managed to find out about this as he had started to be withdrawn and wanting to go out more than usual. I noticed text messages from girls etc. Of course i wasnt happy about this, I confronted him. He didnt want to know, he said he was looking for someone outside our home to talk to. I created a fake email account on his dating site and he expressed his interest and wanted to date me. I was upset and showed him that it was me, took an overdose. While i was in hospital, he didnt care he decided to continue seeing these other women.

I decided to get back to work a week after all this. On my first day at work, i returned home and he had gone,. gone, gone-taken all his stuff and had left to go with one of these women.Our son is 5 months. tell you what since then, he has never phoned, never checked how our son is, he doesnt care. He went, no explanation nothing. This is a few weeks after being married.

Indeed, i have lost weight, I have cried, I have emailed him to get him to come back. But now, I think, im worth more than all this. Although I have a good job as a social worker I need my husband back, we had our life and our furure. How am I going to cope as a single mother. Its been hard so far, no maintenence nothing. No phone calls to check on our little boy.

After reading your message, I feel, you know what, get on with your life, spoil yourself, a child is a blessing, be strong and look after this boy. Only it will take time. I really need to get to the point where i feel as strong as you.

Good on you. 


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  08-11-2008, 10:43 PM
PrincessMum is not online. Last active: 1/4/2009 8:42:17 AM PrincessMum

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Your story is incredible and I really feel for you. What a horrible person to treat you like that. But as you say, get on with your life - show him that you can do it without him. Women don't need men, we are stronger than that - ive certainly realised this since being single. And we have got our children and they haven't so already we have something that they don't. Just show him that despite how he has behaved, he has not won and you will come out on top. I know its really hard, but in time you will feel stronger and be glad that he is out of your life. One day im sure we will meet someone that will treat us right and be thankful that we went through the crap to get to them. You are worth more that all of this, and already you are doing brilliantly - so keep going and never give in, for your sons sake - make him proud!!x
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