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Dear Coleen

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I HAVE a beautiful baby girl who is about to turn one. Her daddy and I were together for two years before she decided to come along.

Now I’m finding it hard to stay with him and feel the only reason I’m still there is for our daughter’s sake.

I moved away from my family a couple of months before I found out I was pregnant — closer to his family.

I feel under a lot of stress with everything because of family life.

His mother always puts me down, criticisin­g me for doing a bad job raising my child when actually she’s the happiest baby in the world.

I’m also putting myself through financial trouble to keep everything going, working full-time, paying for rent and nursery costs.

I clean the house at weekends, can’t go out socially because he won’t look after the baby and he does nothing around the house apart from the washing up. He promised to help more but nothing came of it.

The health visitor is concerned about me as I have no support and I’m running out of reasons to stay. When we have arguments it’s always my fault.

His family are very different to mine – it’s a lot like Meet The Fockers (his parents being the Fockers). Rules I put in place around my daughter are just knocked back and they don’t care if it upsets me.

I try to make everyone happy and never think about myself.

My baby makes me happy but that’s as far as it goes. I don’t know what my

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