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Single mother weekends- can you relate?

Will you be spending a chunk of your weekend alone, even though you’re in a relationships? Lauren* will. And she’s not happy about it. She writes…..

“I am a 26 year old married mother of a three month old baby. I have a devoted, helpful husband who is a fantastic help with our son. The problem is I want more help.

My husband plays cricket for seven months of the year socially, every Saturday.

He leaves the house at 10:30am and is home about 8pm. He also trains two nights per week. I am torn between being supportive of this hobby as he works so hard Monday to Friday and feeling resentful at only getting help one day per week.

I am interested to know how other partnered mothers share and compromise their weekends between solo hobbies and time together as a family. I just can’t seem to get the balance right.

Cricket, golf, the pub, work……How do you function as a team and yet still have the time and space to pursue individual passions?”

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UPDATE: If you left a comment in the first couple of hours after this post was published on Friday, um, well, I kind of lost it. I’m so sorry, I have no idea what happened but somehow they just….vanished and I can’t seem to find them. I’ve even looked under my desk. No luck.

So. If you were one of the first 50 or so commenters on this post and your comment isn’t here, please don’t think for a moment it was deleted or that you were offensive. It’s my fault not yours…..

And sorry to Lauren for misplacing such invaluable advice.