If your man left you, do you feel like you have your own life/hobbies/friends/identity? I feel like I don’t even know what I like or dislike anymore.

I realize after constantly taking care of my child for years I don’t have close enough friendships. I haven’t had many hobbies besides maybe exercising and reading a little, but not enough social hobbies. I go to a lot of events because of my partner. I was just imagining that if he weren’t apart of my life anymore, who am I? What do I even like? I really don’t even know anymore. I do know that I’m absolutely in love with my child, I love them so much, but other than that idk what I like. And I feel so bad that I don’t have strong friend groups and hobbies like my partner does because that’s become like his family and it always seems so hard for girls to come together like men do.

And it makes me feel sad because my man is always threatening to leave me, but all I really want in life is a close knit happy little family. My man always seems to prefer to hangout with his friends more than me and our child and this isn’t what I envisioned when having a child with him, I thought he would be as close with me as he was before pregnancy.

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