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NOT about parenting! This show is about YOU: your relationships that don't involve your children.
After my sister and I grew up, our mother appeared to get 10 years younger each time one of us moved out and left her house forever. Remembering how Mom rediscovered the fountain of youth once she found herself alone instantly gave me hope of reclaiming a life I had sacrificed to have children. There was a period of grief, but almost as soon as my daughter was taken, I began restructuring my day around things that were important to me, things I couldn't have done with my child at home. These days, I think about the drama I don't have to deal with because I don't live with a teenage girl. It's so quiet... I think I like it!
The time I spend in my garden would not be possible if my daughter lived with me. Social distancing would be much harder if my daughter lived with me. Spending time talking to people who don't really like me, they're just parents of my daughter's friends from school—that's something I haven't done for five years. Writing my memoirs... how could I assemble my thoughts with juvenile nonsense going on in my house?
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