Especially the first 5months of my DD's life as DP worked in the city (we live in the country) ... he would leave about 6am to catch the V/Line to work & then arrive home at 8.45pm

I had no family & no friends in the town we lived ... my DD had severe colic so therefore no one wanted to ring with her screaming in the background ... They were very lonely days ... and YES i in those days did feel like a kind of single Mum & therefore had more compassion towards single Mum's in the work they do on a day to day basis ... Just amazing i say