A thought.

As I type this it's late at night, my 5 month old is laying across me just barely asleep, I've been rocking her for nearly 3 hours. My wife is in the shower after going through our finances, trying to pay our bills. She is exhausted after a particularly hard day with our young one, trying to keep the house clean and cook dinner for us. The stress of it all is getting to her.Everyday, as soon as I walk in the door from work I take our child, just so my wife can have a break, and I wonder to myself "when do I get a break?". When I do have time to myself I'm usually fixing something around the house or helping with the cleaning. Somedays we barely even speak to each other, let alone kiss or hug. When we do sleep our child is in between us, which we know is a bad habit but it is the only way that we all get some rest.Sometimes it all seems so hard, sometimes I feel like we will be broke forever, most of the time I don't know how to feel. But we are doing ok, somehow we make it work. A nice gesture, a joke or even a tap on the bum is enough to keep our spirits up and know that we've got each other's backs. I know we will be just fine as long as we continue to do this thing together.My hat goes off to all the single-parents out there, I truly don't know how you do it. You are all amazing people.Don't get me wrong, this post isn't designed to make anyone feel sorry for us, this is not an attention seeking thing. I know there are way more people out there doing it tougher than us.This is just a thought, put into words for anyone that wants to read it. Sometimes just saying shit out loud can make you feel a little better. via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2tmnlU4