@natalie.kristeen: Replying to @wellsayit just like *being a single mom who shares custody/time with her kids with an ex, consistently* and *being a single mom who doesnt get a consistent break from her kids without hiring a babysitter* are BOTH hard and have pros/cons…but they are also DIFFERENT kinds of difficulty. Thats the point. Being a single mom is hard. Being in a relationship with an abusive dead beat is hard. Theyre just different, and that is okay. Your hard is valid.