Were you invited to a Moms’ Night Out Holiday Cookie Exchange that demanded you bake 72 homemade cookies and don’t know how to say no? Ask a Single Mom. Thinking about divorce and want to know what life is like on the other side? Ask a Single Mom. Have no idea how to make time […]
In my life, where I don’t always know whether my fingers will graze sky or ground when I reach out, sometimes our fingers interlaced is all that I need: I don’t need to know how it’s all going to unfold. On the eve of the second anniversary of my husband’s death, a Monday, I drove […]
The responsibilities of this new life gutted me. Dating gave me permission to forge space for myself. It was a way to seize control. In 2011, I found myself single for the first time since the summer after high school. My main squeeze (3-year-old D) and I were living in a small studio apartment. I […]
Dear Dana is a bi-weekly advice column for humans who engage in romantic relationships. Please send your dilemmas, issues, conundrums, assumptions, conflicts, anxieties, worriments, obstacles, complications, predicaments, queries, questions, and any other synonyms for “problems” to deardana@rolereboot.org. Dear Dana: I’m a single mom of a 3-year-old girl. She’s been my entire world since her birth, but […]
Marriage doesn’t mean automatic happiness. I am a single mother of two living in New York City. Even though my kids attend a culturally diverse elementary school, I still stand out like a sore thumb. When I go on playdates, half the time the moms are trying to set me up with someone “they know.” The other half the time they’re asking me how hard it is […]
