This got her going on how fun “dads” are. “Dads,” for example, “are adventurous and like to do things like jump off cliffs.”

Single parenting is all the same work without a teammate there to tap out with.

I always wanted a bumper sticker that read: SINGLE MOTHERS ARE THE STRONGEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. For I think now that life makes us strong if we let it.

 I was staying in a relationship because I was scared that I didn’t have it in me to be a single mom anymore, to do all of those things alone.