How Did I Find My Mantra and My 6 Thoughtful Advice to Single Parents

Merilyne C. Milton
ILLUMINATION
Published in
11 min readFeb 22, 2021

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Never use your single mom or single dad status as a Berlin Wall to stop you from achieving your dreams.

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Having done all the work and carrying out responsibilities on my own, I would say, it is not easy. There was a moment that I thought the world has never been a fair place to live in. I get questions about single motherhood almost all the time, as What do you do for extra income? How do you handle things? How do you prepare for it? — One answer to all these: I am struggling.

Are you happy to be a single mother?

I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life — J.K. Rowling

Nobody wishes to be one — Trust me. No matter how strong a woman is, she has never wished to become a single mom. Not a second in her life ever wish for that. But hey, no one knows what the future holds, right? It is not a dream for any woman to become a single mom. I believe there must be something that triggers a woman (emotionally and physically) to make that sudden choice. One of the reasons is she might have been in a toxic relationship (for a long time). Toxic is as bad as cancer, perhaps worst than cancer. At least, cancer can be treated using the current…

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Merilyne C. Milton
ILLUMINATION

A lady from Borneo. A dreamer. A founder of Anything Asia.