Addiction can take many forms, including drugs, alcohol, gambling, and pornography, among others. Living with a partner who has an addiction can be extremely challenging and stressful. If you have a partner with an addiction, it’s important to know that you are not alone. You may ultimately decide you want to end things, but there is also hope for recovery.
Whilst you decide which road to take, here are six strategies for coping with a partner’s addiction.Continue Reading →
This blog post is a bit different. It’s not what I would usually write about, but writing is therapeutic for me and I feel I need to get my thoughts and feelings out, and on to paper (so to speak). I also want to answer some of the common questions I have been getting because I am completely overwhelmed with messages and emails at the moment (which is also super lovely) about what happened to my daughter and I last week with the Instagram impersonator.
The 19th September was an awful day for me. I had just clicked on my notifications on Instagram when I noticed the very top notification; it was the last person who had liked one of my photos. I didn’t recognize the name or handle, but it was the Instagram user’s profile photo that caught my eye. It was a photo of my daughter and I in the Blue Mountains.Continue Reading →
Christmas is a wonderful time of year for a lot of people. It’s a time of family, friends, love, and laughter.
Sadly, for a lot of people, it is not. For many couples, it is a time of turbulence, fighting, and even abuse.
For single mothers and fathers it is often a period of loneliness, feeling inadequate, reflection, and thinking about what has been lost, and dreams that have been broken. For many single parents, it will be their first Christmas as a single parent (if this is you, read this blog post for some strategies to help you get through this Christmas).Continue Reading →
This blog post has been written and contributed by the beautiful, inspirational, brave, courageous, and strong Angela Zena Hadchiti, founder of The Unheard Voice. Angela and her children have risen from a torturous situation, and a living hell; a horror of domestic violence that no one should ever have to go through. But she is a survivor, one of the “lucky” ones.Continue Reading →
The Single Mother Survival Guide Podcast is coming. It’s a Podcast for single mums, made by a single mum. But I’ll tell you more about the Podcast at the end. First you need to know how to listen to it.
Podcasts (as we know them) have been around for over 10 years, but have gained popularity in recent years through shows such as Serial. A Podcast is essentially an audio show (released as episodes) that you can download or stream for free.Continue Reading →