Great read, alot like Willam Styron’s Darkness Visible. We have lived parallel lives. Thank you for articulating our experience and not pulling any punches.

I read your article in More magazine and I just love your work! Great stuff. I haven’t read anything as touching in a long time and when I found your article on teachers dealing with X parents, I forwarded it to some of my educator friends.

Hello and Thank you,
Former school Teacher with burnt-out. Gave more than I had for too Long. But still in contact with former students and families. What a ride. Now a little nutts and trudging a new path.
Thank you for your sharing,
Keep up the urban farming. Hunting and gathering is becoming our future,
~ Peace ~ J.L.M. :-)

Hey Susan, Such an inspiring story. I wish I had had the balls & guts to stick up for myself like you did. I am a fan.

Fabulous bit on not sharing checking accounts. Having already been through Bachelor #1 who nearly bankrupted us — I was clueless and trusting and he had signed on to that new-fangled thing called “online bill statements” thru Amex long ago–I made it clear with Bachelor #2 that I’ll never co-mingle money or accounts again. Live and learn. It’s sad how ex’s who once goo-gooed over their babies quickly lose interest once they’re out of the house and not involved in the day-to-day raising of those children.

Inspiring to hear how you stuck up for yourself.

Good for you, Susan. My daughter was lucky enough to win a scholarship to a private all girls secondary school in Brighton, England. She wasn’t really intellectually inclined but obviously showed potential. As a single parent with her father being insolvent, there was no way I could have afforded to send her to a private school without that scholarship. It was super to see her in a school that wasn’t bursting at the seams, and now she’s a grown woman who is passionate, successful, and has become my guiding light.
So I am totally behind your decision, however difficult it might have been, to opt for private.

Susan, congratulations on what sounds like an authentic great life! I look forward to reading some of your work. Have a unique perspective on parenting myself so will follow your blog.

How does anyone keep it going! Thanks for the details

Hello, Susan! Looking forward to reading your book(s) and following your new adventures in Philadelphia.