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.
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.
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.
