This is fucking awesome! I can cook for myself & the kiddo what WE want, even if some plain lasuagna noodles! YUM. I can rent WHATEVER movie I want, even if I think it's the silliest movie ever. I can buy and listen to music without having someone make some dumb comment about it. I can walk around naked all the time. I can fart whenever I want (haha!) without someone saying "how gross I am." I don't need to figure out if I need incorporate my time with someone else besides my kiddo. I LOVE that. I NEVER shave & it's amazing to yes, not having someone complain about it. I can do things for ME! I can talk a super long bath, put some Kaia on, light up some candles and read my Harry Potter book. I can go on trips by myself or just me & the kiddo. I can leave my divacup just sitting there without someone "grossing out" by it. (Of course, I clean it!) I can be a vegan and not have to worry about it! I can focus on ME, MYSELF & I. If that sounds selfish... that's okay - it's so what I need right now. And focusing on my kiddo, it fucking rocks...

I can take a bath with my kiddo without someone saying its innapropriate cause hes a boy. I can not worry about snoring because the only person in my bed is my kiddo. I second the walking around naked. I can dance around and act goofy with my kid because no one is laughing at me. I can leave dishes in the sink for days because J doesnt care. thje only reason I get out of bed is for J and knowing that I dont do it for any other person is awesome. I can wake up with bad breath and my kiddo will kiss me anyway. Last but certainly not least, I do not have to arrange my life for anyone else but me and J, no thinking about others plans or feelings and no one up my ass to tell me what Im doing wrong.

I'm envious.

Ya, this is fun! We can eat pigs in a blanket for dinner. I dont have to "eat like a lady", cuz it aint no man here watching me" No Football, basketball is ever on my TV" I can LAY on the couch and dont have to share it with anyone else! No obligatory sex! **Walking around NAKED**- gotta love it ummm, but what sucks about being a single mom is that I ALWAYS have to take out the garbage!

this thread rocks! I don't have to worry about squeezing time with someone else into the spare time I have between work and school and kiddo. I do shave sometimes, but its nice not to have anyone to be grossed out when I don't! I can make up a nickname for my kid and he can call me Mom-o and no one is there to tell me I'm being a dork... lol If I want to turn off my phone and sit at home and read a book all night I don't have to worry about a boy getting mad at me about it (that is seriously like, the thing I love the best after breaking up with bd... he would get so pissed when I did that) I can just be me, and listen to the kind of music I want and dress the way I want to dress. Thats the best part about being single I think is that you don't have to be like, so and so's girlfriend or boyfriend you can just be you.

I can make spontaneous plans with friends. I can leave for the weekend on a moments notice. I can have totally silly dance parties. I can sing to my kiddo sily songs that I make up without getting funny looks. I get to have dinner conversations about rabbits and swimming and what we'd look like with food for facial features. Nobody else spends my money. My kiddo and I are a team and we are so close.

i totally second the thing someone else said about no football or basketball ever being on the tv. i love that. i love that my son and i have such a close relationship, because we only have each other. i dont have to share my little man. (i think this is my favorite part) i get to make ALL the decisions - whether to take him to church and where, what his rules are, who gets to be a part of his life, etc. im the boss. when aj asks for makeup and fingernail polish cuz he sees me putting it on, i can let him without having to hear someone complaining that im making his son "gay" i dont have to fulfill demands from anyone other than myself. i can turn on some loud music and me n aj can dance-clean in our underpants. haha. i dont have to worry about aj playing his parents against each other. if i say NO, theres no one else to ask. his ray of sunshine shines only on ME. im the lucky one.

I started another thread about being young. Young and single mamas are what this board is about! This thread makes me miss my singlehood. - If Matt wants to sleep with me, nobody complains about the bed being too small. - I didn't have to hear about FRICKIN baseball! I hate baseball. - Once we're home, we're home. No going back out in two hours to pick up someone else.

wow all u mamas rock all so positive and inspiring

I made this a stickie and it's also on the front page. Keep adding!

I can discipline my eldest son without having BD pick up for him and tell me, "He's just a kid! He doesn't know any better!" I don't take orders from NO one, not eve my kids! I'M my own boss! (Except from D because he has needs that he can't fulfill himself) I don't have to clean up the coffee pot area anymore! BD isn't around to make it messy! I don't have to flip the toilet seat down. My kiddo pees with it down still. I don't have to constantly worry whether BD is out talking to some prettier girl at the bar anymore because we're no longer together. I never have to fight for the remote, and put up with the stupid Military Channel!!! No more arguements about why BD should be ALLOWED to smoke in MY car!!! My sons are the ONLY men I want!!!