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Thats if you ever felt like they did. I never noticed my mom’s struggle until i was around my teen years. I guess because she always had my grandparents and her uncles when I was younger, so i never really noticed she needed help. She did tell me about not having a car in her early 20s and that we had to take the bus or walk everywhere as she pushed me around in the stroller. I remember things from age 3+ but yea I didn't recall that. I just knew we had a really nice apartment and that I had some of every toy. I was never the type to ask for much but she’d just get it to say I had it ig
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Growing up with a single parent raising you is hard. I’ve dealt with so much verbal abuse from my mother but all I did was try to please her. She was strict which helped with discipline in the long run but as I got older I realized my own mother didn’t know shit about me... AT ALL. She thought she did because she raised me but it’s not true at all. Even now I’m an adult and since the age of 16 I’ve never discussed personal things about me with her. She didn’t know I got pregnant and had a miscarriage at 16. She didn’t know that at 19 a guy tried to rape me, she didn’t know that someone tried to blackmail or better yet post me on the media nude. She never made it comfortable at all so a lot of shit I kept to myself and it’s depressing to feel like you can’t trust someone who gave birth to you, and who says they love you but still treats you like a random person on the street when they don’t get their way.

So I’m really wondering why I am the unluckiest person ever. I’m 26 and never had a long term relationship. In HS, I never got asked out. I tried the dating apps in 2012, have been using them on and off since. It’s been almost a month since I stopped using them & plan to keep it that way hopefully. I always figured that because I’m chubbier, maybe that’s why I’m always single. I lost weight & am still alone. Why I use apps? I don’t have a social life (only “online friends”) and when I used to go out with people I called “friends”, I never got approached. I only get noticed by the men I would not want. When I do get noticed by men physically attractive, it always goes to shit. Only the unattractive ones are usually a bit more promising. I tell my parents my bad luck & clearly they can’t relate. My mom met her partner of 15 years in a chat room & my dad has been steady with another woman for a few years. My parents are out of shape and not college educated, I hate to sound rude. I’m thick too but try to take care of my appearance and have a decent job, degree & own my place. What more does a man want from me? I get mixed reviews on the dating apps, 50-50 for success & fail stories.