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How single parenting creates contradictory emotions about control

My child's other parent is completely absent and I'm angry that I have to do everything but also territorial about sharing decisions.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Solo parenting generates simultaneous resentment about burden and protectiveness about authority.

Ideas that help explain it
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