So my ex and I don’t have any positive communication. There’s actually a term I learned recently called “parallel parenting”. It’s where you aren’t even co-parenting because communication is either hostile or absent. Which it basically is both. I’d prefer not to get into details, but I can honestly say that it isn’t my fault, or at least I stopped being part of the problem 5 years ago, and he refused to work with me to fix things. He was even arrested a couple of years ago and lost custody for a few months because of his mental health issues…

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My son’s mother and I are not together romantically. We separated shortly after our son was born and over the last year since he was born our friendship has gone through A LOT of tribulations and we are finally getting to a healthy partnership and we are successfully co-parenting. …

I have 6 kids from 26 yrs old down to 6 years old. I’ve tried to have a place for them to feel comfortable talking to me about anything. That place ended up being in my truck.

One night while driving back from the gas station, It was snowing a bit and I looked at my 2 boys (now 20 and 18, then about 8 and 10). Stopped at the opening to a church parking lot and they wondered what for. I simply said, “Boys, what happens in the truck, stays in the truck, ok?” …

Today is a day that will go down as one of the hardest moments in my parenting history. I am a 33 year old mother who has been raising her daughter on her own for 12 years. I was finishing up nursing school when I had my daughter and separated from her father when she was only one. During this time, I was awarded sole legal and physical custody due to her father's current life issues. I also made the decision to waive any child support because he was going through so many struggles. I just wanted my daughter safe…

My MIL lives twelve hours away. My partner and I told her months ago that we are going to have a “babymoon” period of 8 weeks, where NOBODY except my partner and I (and the baby’s pediatrician) will meet our baby in person. That way I have time to recover, we have time to learn what the heck we are doing, and the baby will have had shots.

We also informed her that we would not be able to host her when she comes to visit. She has a sister who lives about an hour from us, who has PLENTY…

Background to save time: I’m a divorced mom to a 5 year old daughter with ADHD, high functioning autism, and the energy of an energizer bunny on speed. I’ve been dating my partner for just about 3 years now, and we live together.

With covid, I’ve been working full time+ this entire time. My partner is extremely high risk so he’s been off work for a year now. My daughter just turned 5 so she doesn’t go to school yet, so my mom watches her during the week while I’m at work.

But man…the weekends just drain me. My daughter…

Lately, I’m finding it very difficult to get my 6 year old to contribute to any household tasks. He used to be more willing to pick up his room, clean up his messes in common areas, even unload the dishwasher, but over time it was like pulling teeth, so I basically stopped asking him to do anything, save a few little things here and there. But as scarcely as I DO ask, the response is often a blatant ‘no’. I honestly feel like anything he does riles me up more. (As a teacher who has fairly good “control” of her…

Please excuse my English as it’s not my first language. We have a 6-month-old baby girl. We’re out of the worst part for now and it’s getting better and I’m managing to get more sleep. But I cosleep with the baby in a separate bed, meaning my husband has a bed all to himself all night. We go to bed around 7 or 8 pm and get up at 5 or 6 am. My baby wakes up a couple of times and she moves a lot during the night, meaning I don’t sleep all that time and it’s not good…