The Struggle is REAL: Confessions of a Single Mother THREE

Every woman has a story…. Every mother has an inspiring story… Every single mother has a peculiar story… One of the best ways to build support and a sense of belonging is to share personal testimonies. In the latest edition of Confessions of a Single Mother, nine authors have come together to share their stories with you. The struggles of being single mothers are unique and many can feel as though they are alone in their situation, however this is the third book - twenty-seven women later that you can now relate to. For some of the authors, this is still the present status in which we find ourselves as a single mother, For others, their situation has shifted and they are now married and/or have overcome these situations. The mothers in this book come from diverse cultural backgrounds and are different ages, so they each lend their own specific piece to the overall puzzle of the complicated obstacles a single mother may go through. Being a single mother doesn’t have just one journey or one right or wrong approach. With this book, we hope to provide a handbook for women all over the world. While covering the trials and tribulations that we have faced on our journeys with our children from day to day, we also share coping mechanisms we used to overcome some of our struggles. Our hope is that you can implement these tools into your own life so you can learn to overcome as well.We want every woman to know that she can rise above any adversary and that she is a worthy, beautiful, and is an amazing human being. You are worth more than rubies and nothing a man desires can compare. The stories in this volume are not sugar-coated, as our children like. These stories share the difficult, harsh, and often cruel reality of the journeys that we’ve had to go on as single mothers. They are raw, not because it is our preference of meat, but because they are real, as we say in our motto “the struggle is real”.