Isn’t it nice to know that Madonna struggles as a single parent too? Excuse me while I go in the other room and scream! I may be a little bitter about it but if I hear one more extremely wealthy woman complain about how hard it is to juggle single motherhood and her career I think my head is going to explode.
I wonder how many nights Madonna has walked the floor with a teething infant or been woken up multiple times by a toddler with night terrors and then had to take that same tired, cranky child to daycare and drag her sleep deprived self to work. Then after eight hours pick up that same child and hope he goes to sleep early enough for her to get a shower before it starts again?
I understand that her life is different as a single mother than it was when she was married but please don’t tell me how hard it is. It is just a fact of life that with money comes more choices, you can choose to have help, someone to help with the kids, the house, the cooking and the laundry. I don’t begrudge anyone anything they have worked for but please don’t tell me you know what my life is like, because you don’t have a clue.
When I was younger I cleaned houses, one of my clients was a pair of doctors, very well established, well regarded doctors. They had three children, two live in nannies, a full time housekeeper, in addition to myself, I did the heavy cleaning twice a week, and a cook. When they got divorced she complained to me how much her life had changed and how hard it was. Really? She still had the same household help, she still worked ten to twelve hours a day, she still lived in her huge house and drove her expensive car. The nannies carted the kids to activities, made sure they did their homework and in general, parented them, how was her life suddenly so hard?
I wish for one day those women could live the life of a single mother, with small children, doing it alone. It makes me angry because women like that make it sound like all single mothers are complaining about nothing. Please, say your life has changed, but don’t tell me how hard it is because you really don’t know.