>>127076It's hard for you. I'm sorry it's hard for you. Sometimes things are hard and we need someone to struggle with us because then it doesn't feel like we've failed, it just feels like things are hard right now. Things are hard for me too, not in the same way, but I'm not in a good way at the moment and I hate cleaning too.
Your daughter is kindergarten age; it will be work but you can teach her some basic chores to help you out around the house. As she gets older she'll be able to help out more. I guess you could live your life for your daughter. Get her to try in school. Tell her you didn't and you wish you could've, how important an education is so she doesn't end up optionless. It's what my parents told me, and even though they were clueless about how bad things were going to get, I tried in school and I have options and I'm glad I tried in school if only because it means I don't need to worry about money now. I still worry about money, but it's a middle-class worry. I don't worry about money the way they used to worry about money, money as the progenitor of arguments. Money as an either/or. Either we have dinner or new shoes, so I better bear with these broken shoes. I'm glad to be out of that struggle, but I think being poor taught me a lot about resourcefulness, and how far you could stretch everything you had. When I was a child I found duct tape on the ground while walking to school, and I treasured it like gold. When you're poor, small things bring you great excitement and joy. I hope she loved the beach, it would've been nice.
Don't live through your daughter though (harder than it looks). Live for her. I don't have a child, I hope to have one some day, but I imagine I could love my child so much that I'd do anything to make their life better than mine. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'd love that child and even if I couldn't do much for them, I'd try tell them all of my mistakes, and I'd try guide them away from those mistakes. I know it's futile; we learn through failure. I wouldn't force my child to get a job, I think school is a full-time job as is. I think I'd love my child so much I'd find a way to make things happen. A child deserves a chance, but I'm not American so I don't know how much opportunity the land of opportunity still proffers. I don't have a child so I don't know what it's like to have a child.
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