Of all the things I lost when I got divorced – and I lost a lot – the immediate possibility of a second child and a sibling for E was perhaps the hardest to get over. At the time that I’d always thought I would be planning my next pregnancy, I was separating from myContinue reading “The Merchild & The Unicorn, Part 2”
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The Merchild & The Unicorn, Part 1
I don’t know how to adequately describe the shame and embarrassment I felt at becoming a 28-year-old divorcée and single mother to a first-born 1-year-old, so I won’t try here. I will just say that, whether they were or they weren’t, I felt that everyone must be thinking, “what on Earth is wrong there?” IContinue reading “The Merchild & The Unicorn, Part 1”
The Merchild and Her Questions
“Mamma, have you ever been married?” E was four years old, and it was the first time she asked one of the questions that I had known would come since her dad and I split up a month after her first birthday. I didn’t know when the questions would start, or what form they wouldContinue reading “The Merchild and Her Questions”
About Me
Hello, and thank you for visiting my blog! I am the mother of one adorable “merchild” (my six-year-old child, E, she/her unless and until she tells me otherwise). I was a single mother and coparent for most of E’s life until I recently remarried. I have found that while there is no shortage of parentingContinue reading “About Me”
Mother of Merchild 