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How To Handle The Holidays As A Single Mom
How To Handle The Holidays As A Single Mom

How To Handle The Holidays As A Single Mom [VIDEO]

How to celebrate with the kids and put a smile on all of your faces.

This year will be the first time you're celebrating the holidays with the kids... alone. How are you going to handle all of the responsibility without your children seeing you break a sweat (or shed a tear)? Being A Single Parent Has Made Me A Better (Future) Husband In this video, Therapist and YourTango Expert, Elisabeth LaMotte offers her tips for keeping the family spirit alive. Learn why keeping old (and starting new) traditions will have you and the kids feeling merry and bright through the New Year.

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Love In Numbers: 10 Signs You'll Become A Single Mom

Plus, 10 signs your marriage may be headed for divorce & 5 pitfalls to dating older or younger.

50 celebrity kids' Halloween costumes. 14 sex products you do not need. 11 crazy places that seem like a great idea for quickie sex, but are really not. 5 pitfalls to dating someone older or younger.

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Dating Rules For Single Parents

Don't let motherhood kill your mojo. Follow these tips to protect your kids as you play the field.

Single parents have it rough trying to balance their personal lives with the demands and responsibility that come with being a parent. Dating can be especially challenging, as there are certain boundaries that should not be crossed because the overall well-being of the child has to come first.

Ladies, Is Casual Sex What YOU Need?

Ladies, Is Casual Sex What YOU Need?

Ethics aside, let's figure out if no-strings sex will give you the release and fulfillment you CRAVE

So you know you're not interested in 'serious'.   Maybe you've recently divorced, or gone through a break up.  Or maybe you're simply focused on other aspects of your life right now. Nonetheless, some part of you is craving sex.  BIG time.  And you're considering having a casual sexual relationship (or two...or five) cause otherwise, you swear you just might go insane.

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Baby Bytes: Single Mom or Supermom?

Maternity leave standards, high-risk mom jobs and how to humiliate your child into straight As.

Here at LoveMom, we bring you the love. Our weekly Baby Bytes bring you everything else. Here are this week's 7 must-click mom links: what moms give up for motherhood, maternity leave standards throughout the world and one mom who embarrassed her child into better grades. These links, along with 7 tips on how to do it all as a single mom.

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The Surprising Upside To Being A Work Widow

How I adapted when my husband started traveling for work.

My husband is in sales. He is wonderful at his job and has grown in his career. Unfortunately, moving up the sales ladder generally means that you’re going to be traveling – a lot. Earlier this year, I said “Adios” to corporate America and turned to freelance writing to keep me sane while staying at home with my children full-time. It’s a good thing I did – a few months later, my husband’s schedule shifted and he was suddenly required to be out of town Monday morning through late Wednesday night every. single. week.

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Dating Younger Men: Would You?

A divorcing stay-at-home mom of three offers dating tips on how to handle 'Young Man Interest'

Three years ago, when I first started dating after divorce, I felt like I’d arrived on another planet. Not just cause I had no idea how to date again, but because it quickly became apparent that a new ‘phenomena’ had come to town since I’d last visited: Young Men Were Seeking Older Women. And oh yeah - their holsters were full!  Dating, Sex and the Older Woman

Jennifer Aniston & The Turkey Baster: Expecting?

Jennifer Aniston & The Turkey Baster: Expecting?

Aniston talks about marriage, kids and starting a family—on her own.

Although Jennifer Aniston has been asked about marriage and motherhood ever since her split with Brad Pitt in 2005, the 41-year-old's latest role is causing even more speculation.

A New Man for Mother’s Day? Give Yourself the Gift

A New Man for Mother’s Day? Give Yourself the Gift of Love Minus the Guilt. Here comes Mother’s day... If you’re a single mom with school-aged children, you’re probably left to organize the festivities for yourself. “Is it possible to ask my daughter to find me a new man for Mother’s Day?”

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Maternal Me Vs. Sexual Sue: Dating As A Single Mom

What happens when you resist conventional single-mom dating advice?

In the second half of my fourth decade, I became a single mom. For a year it was more than enough and I threw myself into a world of sippy cups and story-times. But one spring day, as the cherry trees blossomed, a longing bloomed in me—I wanted something else, someone else. So I dusted off the Goldfish crumbs and decided to date. But how long could I—a seven-day-a-week, twenty-four-hour-a-day mother—keep the man I was dating out of my "real" life, the one that involved being responsible for a three-foot-high person?

Single moms - Staring over

Single moms - Staring over

A ferrytale love, that everyone looked up to. A love that I once had dreamed for and thought could not really exist. This was my life 12 years ago. Now I am heart broken, and have no idea where to begin. My only joy comes from my child and Faith.