Single mommy by choice complains that folks don't want to help her

[MatureDJ]

I’m a single mother – want to give me a hand with the groceries?

I am a solo mother by choice with a donor-conceived son and no partner at home. So why won’t my neighbour help me carry my groceries? Where’s “The Village” when I need it?

www.smh.com.au

As I haul multiple shopping bags from my boot, while my toddler skitters between parked cars, my neighbour nods hello from his back porch, while ashing his cigarette.

Each week – despite knowing that I am a solo mother by choice with a donor-conceived son and no partner at home – my neighbour watches me teeter inside, a leaning tower of motherhood with hefty bags and a yelling child attached to my shins. I smile brightly and say hello, but my mind is a static of expletives: why doesn’t he offer to f------ help?!

my opinion: You want a man to help? Give him access to the Golden Vajaya, preferrably when you want to get pregnant.

 

[EyeBRollin]

Dumb broad.

 

[Fortune_favors_the_bold]

I’m a single mother – want to give me a hand with the groceries?

I am a solo mother by choice with a donor-conceived son and no partner at home. So why won’t my neighbour help me carry my groceries? Where’s “The Village” when I need it?

www.smh.com.au

my opinion: You want a man to help? Give him access to the Golden Vajaya, preferrably when you want to get pregnant.

Savage!

 

[Bokanovsky]

As I haul multiple shopping bags from my boot, while my toddler skitters between parked cars, my neighbour nods hello from his back porch, while ashing his cigarette.

Each week – despite knowing that I am a solo mother by choice with a donor-conceived son and no partner at home – my neighbour watches me teeter inside, a leaning tower of motherhood with hefty bags and a yelling child attached to my shins. I smile brightly and say hello, but my mind is a static of expletives: why doesn’t he offer to f------ help?!

The level of entitlement is through the roof but that's modern wymynz for ya. They think that other people exist solely for their convenience. It hasn't even occurred to her that the guy would rather enjoy a cigarette on his back porch than deal with her groceries and screaming "donor-conceived" child. If you want him to offer help, maybe try doing something neighbourly yourself first, like bake him a cake or offer to come clean his house. I bet that would work better than writing an indignant article on the internet.

If this were a town square, a hundred years ago, my neighbour would no doubt get off his arse and help carry my bags or watch my child while I do the return trip to get the second load. But parenting and all its attendant domestic minutia has become increasingly atomised.

If this was a town square a hundred years ago, she would be mercilessly shamed for having a child out of wedlock. Go back another couple of hundred years and she would have been tarred and feathered or maybe even stoned to death. So yeah, maybe don't pine for the "good old days".

 

[f(x)]

If he did offer to help with the groceries, she’d probably complain about him smoking in the house.

 

[patb]

The level of entitlement is through the roof but that's modern wymynz for ya. They think that other people exist solely for their convenience. It hasn't even occurred to her that the guy would rather enjoy a cigarette on his back porch than deal with her groceries and screaming "donor-conceived" child. If you want him to offer help, maybe try doing something neighbourly yourself first, like bake him a cake or offer to come clean his house. I bet that would work better than writing an indignant article on the internet.


If this was a town square a hundred years ago, she would be mercilessly shamed for having a child out of wedlock. Go back another couple of hundred years and she would have been tarred and feathered or maybe even stoned to death. So yeah, maybe don't pine for the "good old days".

They sound pretty good to me...