H..e..l..l..o..from the inside; is everyone still out there? I figure a global pandemic is as good of a time as any to check back in with you all, I am alive, I am healthy and I am lonely. There. I said it. Now we can just move along -right?! I mean the first step is admitting it -right?!
As like many of you-I am sure; this global health crisis has given me plenty of extra time to evaluate my current orbit in this crazy place we call life, and to be quit frank (Who the heck is “Frank” anyway?! And is he single? Ha.) I’m questioning everything I thought I knew to be true about what I wanted.
Now don’t get me wrong, I feel completely and totally blessed to have this time home with my 10 year old daughter, never in my wildest dreams would I have ever had this opportunity to “stay at home” for this length of time with her. I am absolutely THRILLED to have a house that is filled with little girl giggles and mommy daughter moments during this scary coronavirus pandemic.
Yet even as a badass single mom who is absolutely obsessed with building a life worth living for just her and her daughter and super proud of all that I’ve accomplished on my own, I’ve also had another thought- wouldn’t it be nice to be doing all this shit with a man..not just a man..a boyfriend?

No. I don’t need to read any more books about embracing being single, or how to be a kick ass single mom because I have read them and I have written articles about doing it and being one. All I am suggesting is that if I am to be completely honest with myself and with you all, COVID-19 has changed a TON of things, and my feelings towards my romantic life-is one of them.
Now, please do not read this as me being insensitive, my heart goes out to everyone who is being impacted by COVID-19, it is a global pandemic after all. I am so grateful for all the essential employees that are going to work every day in order to keep the rest of us safe. I’m most certainly not here to claim that being single during a global pandemic is any harder than anything else, I just thought that sharing my own personal experience might help normalize whatever it is that you might be going through.
As a final thought, I will say to anyone who might be out there feeling the same way-our relationship status does not define us, especially during a time like this. We are all in this together.

Cheers!