When Failing to Find a Partner Feels Like Failing My Kids

This is the part of single parenting that no one ever warned me about.

This is the part of single parenting no one ever warned me about.

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My son mentions, not for the first time, that he would like a stepdad. I suggest absently that I’ll just order one up on Amazon. At this point, he gets very excited that one might be in within one to two business days of arriving. I have to tell him I’m b…