Frustrated isn't the word, I think she played the single mother role pretty well. I kind of lived it in my life with my two lousy parents. My mom was raised in an uber-religious family, yet married my bad boy dad. I presume it was the standard late 50s marriage, mom thought she would change bad boy dad, bad boy dad wanted mom to stay the same forever. Mom of course has no hope of changing bad boy dad, three children later mom finds this new thing called feminism and it's time for her to find her way. Divorce, near poverty, now single mom hero with three children decides it would be a good idea to get a degree in sociology and save the world as a social worker, her own three children be damned. Money's tight so mom gets right back into the patriarchy and marries a much older lonely widower with resources. I move in with my dad just to get a roof over my head for a couple of years and finish high school with my friends instead of learning to put up with the crap of my new "stepdad" and finish at a different school. High school over and I am gone, but since I became an adult at about the age of 10 I knew how to make it happen. Thanks Mom and Dad! Seriously. I've become very successful and I owe them a compliment, albeit a backhanded one.
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