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Ok I am 19 with a 4 month old Stuck in a house with my grandparents and parents. Everyone acts like his parent and treat my like I am 5. No one will take me for my drivers test So I dont have a license. I work at Giant as a cashier. I need my license, a car, and a place to live.. any suggestions?
hello veronica my name is shuntia and i am trying to place my 15 year old daughter in private school due to the fact that public school has let us down. ashunti my daughter has been accepted in to a private school but financial aid did not cover the full tuition so i was wonder if there was any other aid i could apply for that would help
I am pregnant with my first child. I found out I was pregnant after the baby’s father broke up with me, and I told him. He has been very back and forth on the way he acts about the situation, despite saying he wants to be there for both me and the child. The reason I am writing is because I am very confused with the situation. We live together, and are planning on getting a bigger place together to raise the child together, but no matter how hard I try to accommodate his needs to be his own person and not to “cage” him as he says, he refuses to call ourselves boyfriend and girlfriend.
He says that labels are destructive to relationships and that is why we broke up to begin with, however I have suspicions that he is looking for other women. I find it difficult to trust him, and even though I have no reason to believe that he would abandon the baby and me, I have these creeping thoughts that he will try to run the moment he can find something better. Our situation is difficult because even though I have a college degree, I work as a Host at the Olive Garden, who due to the recent Obamacare act, refuses to give anyone more than 28 hours a week, leaving me with less than $150 a week on my checks after taxes and health insurance. I depend on him for rent because he makes more money than I do. I depend on him to take care of me when I’m sick.
I don’t know what the best course of action is because my family lives two hours away, and he has not given me any reason that I should just pack up and go. Not to mention, I love him with all my heart. And he says that he loves me, but his actions and his distance say otherwise.
Please Help.
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im sorry this will be long. My boyfriend and i got together over a year ago and got pregnant within the first two months. everything was good at the time but fast forward to now–not so much.
our son is 7 months old. during the time i was pregnant he could never keep a job and we where bouncing around to our families houses and now live with his mother. in that house i have no say what happens to my own son. like i said he is 7 months and his mother gives him chicken bones, full adult cookies and even a chicken nugget. im terrified that he is going to get hurt because they keep shoving food down his throat.
well my boyfriend also recently totalled his truck so now we are looking for a new one. well him and his mother are deciding everything together, without me and he wont even tell me what he is doing with money THATS MINE TOO. i found out not only that he put money down on a truck without my knowing, but also that it was a 3 seater truck with no back seat. i do not feel comfortable putting my 7 month old in the front at all and im pretty sure he isnt even supposed to be there, let alone facing forward. but no, apparently im wrong even when ive had people tell me its illegal because his mom is saying its fine and still telling him to get the truck. i thought this was about getting our life straight? not hers!
not only that, but he doesnt include me or our son in ANY decisions he makes and ADMITTED to it last night and also said he was just worried about him and not his family. example: without my input or care for my input he is planning on getting 3 different vehicles THEN getting a house of our own. and he wont change his mind or listen to how i feel. it doesnt matter how i feel he has made that clear.
im tired of being called a stupid little bitch and him hanging our son in my face saying he will take him from me. im not happy in all seriousness im miserable. im tired of not meaning anything to him. but im afraid to leave because i dont want to go thru not being able to see my baby everyday because of custody issues. part of me wants to work it out and the other is scared and just wants to run away with my son but i cant. hes a good father when it comes to playing with our son but when it comes to doctors, and needing baby supplies his words are ” its all you”. its not just my son, its his as well. and i know if i leave he will find me and take our son for the sole purpose of hurting me. idk what to do. please help
how can i get help finding an affordable place for me and my daughter? i am a single mom
Hey Veronica,
I used to live with My mom two siblings and boyfriend at the time, with our beautiful daughter. Him and I are not in the right position to be together and he kicked me out of the home. My mom has barely any say so in anything. Now Grace (mine and his daughter) and I are staying at my grandmothers place, she sleeps in her bassinet and I sleep on the couch. I don’t have anywhere to go. My father and his wife lost their home. My aunt lost hers, my cousins practically all live together. I have nowhere to go, no bed to sleep on. I have all of my daughters necessary items, clothing, crib, mattress, ect, but I can’t live in a living room with those items, neither can she. I dropped out, I don’t have a job, never have, I’m 18 years old, first time Mom. I love my daughter so much and I want her to have the best of life that I can give her. I am desperate need of advice on where to go from here. I live in Michigan, no drivers license. I depend on everyone just about. I’m so lost and messed up right now, I need advice.