It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.
Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
It can feel isolating to be a mom. I've been one and felt isolated.
Kids are fabulous, but when you're home all day with an infant that can't talk, your brain starts to kind of melt, and I thought, 'I have to do something, or my brain is just going to liquefy.'
I don't think I spoke to anyone apart from my daughter for the first two years of her life.
I wanted to be a cool mom. It was hectic. I felt very isolated for a long time, but in the end, it was cool because it helped me and Ninja stick together. If we hadn't, we would have maybe drifted.
London does two things for me: it makes me feel connected, and it also makes me feel very isolated and quite lonely at times, and that's someone with two children in their family.
I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that.
