But being strong doesn’t mean breaking alone and in silence, allowing no witnesses to see us fall apart.That’s what I keep telling myself when I try to do it all and be it all with no one to lean on.
I keep trying to make myself stronger than I am. After all, why wouldn’t I? I’m a single mother in a culture where single parents are told we have to be both parents.
But we cannot be more than the one parent that we are. We can’t compensate for the missing nuclear family, and yet the pressure to do just that is enormous.Then there’s the part of society that tells us that if we are single — as in, status unmarried and living alone — we should also learn to be enough on our own. We get the idea that we aren’t allowed to lean. We aren’t allowed.
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