Looking for some mom friends!

Hello I’m Maddie I’m 21 and I have a 3 month old little girl. I live in the middle of nowhere so I know it’s not as good a chance of finding someone to hangout with ofc but even someone to text that understands sounds amazing!❤️

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Making friends

Is anyone else in the same situation as me. I want to make some mom friends who would like to meet up and go on play dates and walks or just a general catch up over a tea/coffee. But at the same time I’m shy I have a 2 year old little girl and a 1 year old little also.
Would anyone be willing to meet up and start a friendship.

Universal credit and having a job

Is there anyway to work part time and continue receiving the same amount of money from universal credit? I've heard if you work 16 hours or less, your Universal credit money doesn't change.

I have a toddler and I'm pregnant so I kind of need to earn abit more money.. just wondering what my options are

How would you feel?

My husband wants to email my therapist about concerns he has for me so she can work on them with me. He keeps saying that I’ve lied about everything since we’ve met but I haven’t. If he questions you and doesn’t believe what you say then in his head it’s automatically a lie. I can’t post the rest of the screenshot but I basically told him I know he’s gonna email her anyway so go ahead and do it. It’s probably some HIPPA law against that anyway so I doubt she would reply or acknowledge the email. I feel like if you want to fix our relationship call a couples counselor not my therapist that I’ve been working with for 4 years. I just feel like this is another way to control me. He’s already moved me away from my family and friends and I feel isolated what’s the point of emailing the one outlet I do have. How would you feel if your husband or partner did this?

Not sex related but marriage related.

We’ve been married for almost a yr now and our baby is 3 months old. I have a son from a previous relationship and when I say the one thing in common they have is the fact that these men feel like they know everything and don’t need help from me with these kids but the minute something happens, now it’s babe help! How many times have you taken your baby out and stated you won’t be out too long but yet you were out for a while longer and felt unprepared is enough food, pampers, etc? I have and i always try to make sure I’m not. My husband doesn’t like strollers and this is the second time he’s ever been out with our baby alone. He uses the carrier and i gave him the baby bag. The argument is : i don’t wanna take this bag, I don’t feel like i need everything in here. We won’t be out long. You don’t know what you’re going to need, take the stroller so you’re not carrying a lot, better to be prepared than not, don’t take the bag then. Now he had an attitude. Moving forward ima just let him live and learn like I do my son but when shit doesn’t work out ima let him figure it out. Idk if it’s pride or what but if he wants this marriage to last, he’ll stop being so oppositional bc I’m over it. He asked what’s going on her feet? I said she has on socks. He said that’s not enough. Where’s her shoes? Well she doesn’t walk and has blankets but now you know what you need to buy her. He hasn’t bought her anything as of yet.

Options for sensitive content

There needs to be options for sensitive content. Ie...trigger warning, poopy nappy, miscarriage, or yo im gonna upload my discharge 🤮

Set up a business and I REGRET it!

Guys I’m in need of a huge rant I need it to be private as you’ll understand as I explain.

So I had my first baby just over a year ago. I’m a self employed hair dresser and when I took a year off from my clients I knew it was a risk. I thought coming back bigger and stronger would help me engaged back with my lost clients and some did return to me as they are my ride or dies bless em! But I knew I’d have to do something huge to create excitement and a buzz. So I opened my own hair salon. I big step up after just renting a chair in another salon. It looks impressive and on paper it was my next step up anyway. Everyone always expected this is what I’d do one day.

However it’s no way near gone to plan unfortunately.

A lot less of my clients have come back to me.
I’ve spent a fortune doing the place up. It’s costing me an arm and a leg to run the salon as my rent is sky high (it is a very beautiful salon but who gives A F when there’s hardly no clients in it 😢).

It’s costing me so much that I also now don’t have the budget to advertise to try promote myself. Every penny goes on my childcare nursery bills or running the building.

I’ve tried renting chairs out to other hairdressers but nobody’s wanting to move or change salons right now. What with the cost of living crisis it has hugely affected how oftenclients can come for their hair doing and I’m not even the most expensive. So I also get why other hairdressers also aren’t looking to rock the boat and risk moving salons.

Before I had my baby I was fully booked for months. Now week by week I don’t know if I’ll be able to pay the bills.

On paper this should have worked. I’ve been a hair dresser for 12 years.
I took a step back to have my baby and during that time I didn’t appreciate how hard it would be to lure my clients back over to me.

I’ve spent probably way too much and I feel like I’ve well and truly messed up my life.

I don’t even know what the point of telling this to strangers on the internet is except this is like a huge secret. I’m so ashamed that my business has been a failure that I dare not admit it to my friends or family who are none the wiser. Only my husband knows the truth. I’m having to fake it to make it. I’ve lost 2 stone with the stress and worry and bottling it up inside.

I’m not even a silly business woman, everything was done with financial planning and was thoughtfully planned out. But that was all well and good when I thought the clients would return. I’m wanting to try to promote myself through social media as it’s free but it’s just not working that well.

Im devastated. This is the biggest secret I’ve ever held in.