It’s Saturday morning, I started my day doing chores while simultaneously watching Tyler Perry’s Single Mom’s Club on Amazon Prime. Have you watched it? It tells the story of five single moms from different walks of life struggling in their own ways. I wasn’t paying much attention to the movie because I was multitasking. It was more of a background noise for me. But as the movie played on, conversations between the moms caught my attention.
Hillary asked Lytia, “How do you be a Single Mother? It’s so much work to do on your own.”
Lytia’s responsed with, “That’s the problem. You are thinking about it. You can’t do that. You can’t think about it, you just got to do it. If you think about it, it will overwhelm you. You just have to take one snorting nose and one dirty diaper at a time”.
True, but like most things in life, it’s easier said than done, isn’t it?
“It’s so unfair,” Hillary said to her single mom friends as they all sat on the patio drinking red wine. “I did not expect my life to turn out like this. To raise children on my own now.” She continued to vent.
Well, life happened and here we are. What I did find interesting as their conversation evolved was that Lytia did not feel sorry for Hillary because she claimed Hillary had money.
“Y’all gat money”, she enviously said.
But then Jen responded, “money is not the answer to everything.”
You can say that again Jen. Money or no money, single moms/single parents all want the same thing – Support. As Tyler Perry so beautifully demonstrated in this movie through the words of his cast, we want what other single parents want – we all want help, to feel equal, to know that everything is going to be alright, to know that we made the right choices with our kids.
Each day thoughts like these run through your minds, doesn’t it? Between juggling a job or two, raising a new generation, running errands and doing chores, you also have to do some self-care so you don’t lose yourself being a single parent. It is tough. But if I can leave you single parents with one thing, it is this: You are not alone. A common thread binds us – Single parenthood.
You don’t have to do life alone. We can extend a helping hand in ways that can make the load lighter for you. Contact us.
