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Posted by BelmontFoundation - 04/09/08, 02:04 pmThanks for visiting the Belmont Foundation Single Mom's Community. While online support does not replace face to face realtionships, we have found that it is an effective way to develop a sense of community. We encourage you to be vulnerable with each other and to do so wisely. Our hope is that through this online community you will not feel alone and that strength will be developed as you strengthen one another.
I have been a single Mother for 6 years. I have two beautiful,loving daughters. I had to move in with my Mother when I left. I am still here. For along time I was embarrassed to be in my thirties and living with my Mother. But I guess God knew what He was doing and little did I know what I had in store for me at the time. I've been battling Fibromyalgia for almost 2 years now, and according to my Dr. I have one of the most severe cases she has ever seen. Some days I am completely incompacitated and can hardly turn over in bed. My Mother has been such a blessing to my children and I that I am now longer embarrassed, but honored. Their father doesn't pay child support and I was forced to stop working when I got so sick. I get $215 a MONTH from DHR to raise my children. It is so very hard, but somehow God always provides. Thier father was extremely abusive and although it has been six years since I left, I can't help but wonder if he didn't cause my Fibro, since studies show that it can be caused by trauma. So, even though I am gone and trying to give my children a better life and future, it is like I am still a prisoner to his evil. I have rededicated my life, and last month my oldest daughter was baptised. Although, we are under what seems to be a curse, there are still small blessings that we reap. I have applied for disability, but was denied. I am appealing my case, but I can take years. I try not to give myself a pity party, but so much is laid before me that I can't seem to cross over. My Granmother recently passed away and I miss her. She was so beautiful and vibrant, and really, really loved me. I guess I just feel abandoned and have fallen deeper and deeper into this sorrow, that I almost feel invisible, be it for the excruciating pain. So, I guess this is my pity party, but I have held so much within me I feel like I'll go crazy if I don't release it. I just don't want to own it anymore. I worry for my children, wonder why something so beautiful, could be born into this abyss of neglect. I hope when they are older they are scarred by the abandonment of their father and the illness that consumes me. Please pray for them, for me; that God will have mercy on us. Thanks.-Poetic1
poetic1
i know what you all are going through.i am a single mom to a 5 year old girl.i had to throw her dad out he was so abusive to us.i am overweight and he would call me fat-so in front of my little girl and she does not like that at all.i am having a hard time keeping up with her cause she does not want to mind.does anyone have ideas on how to get my daughter to mind me.stressed
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