Leigh Anne’s Story

I am so heartbroken right now! After reading KC’s story, my daughter’s entire childhood makes perfect sense. Being a young single working mom by choice – divorced him when I was 25 and she was 2, it was just me and my girl. She would always get invited to her friend’s house after school and on the weekends but none of her friends would ever be able to come over to hers. EVER! Her friends would be so excited and then come back to school the next day and say, “My mom said no.” Later in elementary school, she would even CRY nearly every weekend because no one could come over. I now get it that it was our lifestyle that prevented parents from trusting, accepting, allowing, whatever their hangup was. Bastards. I’m a really good mom and my child is a STAR student, well-behaved, smart, thoughtful, considerate, well-mannered, but becuase I was single… I am so sad about her lost childhood and if I could go back and do one thing differently, I would FAKE that I was married and LIE that I did not have a job so that I could be like all those other (pathetic, narrow-minded) moms IF ONLY FOR THE HAPPINESS OF MY GIRL.