Parenting alone doesn’t have to mean being lonely for the rest of your life. Being alone shows itself in many ways and it’s feeling of isolation can hit at almost any age and within any group, not just separated individuals or single parents having difficulties to restore a social interaction. Being alone in single parents can be reduced with a good support of friends and family that can matter as the parent and the kids experience the loneliness triggered when the partner is no longer having communication with them. Lonely single parent should try to keep their normal lifestyle and workouts continuous to keep active, reducing the initial loneliness of separation and divorce and taking the advantage in meeting new individuals and building new connections. The negative behavior of others can increase this feeling of loneliness by resulting in many single parents to feel that their loneliness, even though due to conditions, is their entire mistake.  The treatments for loneliness are as unique and personal as the individuals who are suffering from loneliness. There is no “one size suits all” treat for loneliness.  Here are several actions that single parents can catch to build up social re-connection and self-help when they come to be familiar with the feeling of isolation is starting to affect their life.

Be aware that you are not alone

Unbearable loneliness affects oneself on how to build confidence and how to overcome loneliness, numerous resources will help you understand this fact and will help you provide opportunities to communicate with others leading to the steps on conquering isolation. Many people sense that being lonely show that their thoughts of being lonely get connected to their senses that they do not fit in the society and they felt they are not normal. The settings of your “family” may have modified or may not fit the standard but you and your kids ARE a FAMILY!

Build self confidence

Be a part of a group based on a topic that interests you, it will take tremendous bravery simply walk into a room with people that is a stranger to you, but knowing that you are not alone is the key to get self-confidence and developing connections. Communicating with others, even though in just little discussions causes actions that develop self confidence. Relationships and connections are beneficial and it needs time, work, and investment but can be so satisfying that they become their own prize.  Once you get in touch with and start to get to know the people in your group, you can become more effective.

Enclose interest

Don’t be reluctant with your thoughts when you notice common strings between you and others.  Once you have work all the way through your personal pain and started out the limitations and have started communicating to others, the next phase to take is realizing and striking up discussion with people on daily life matters. As you comment on these parallels internally and superficially, paying attention and watching for the reactions; enjoying others is the first thing to you being heard.

Take your own steps

Start with simple hellos or good days to others, but if they seem diverted or unavailable to reply in kind don’t get a hold with it as a personal negative response or don’t even think that they have rejected you, enjoy your bravery at providing a sentiment and keep introducing and greeting others. Don’t wait for others to make the first steps in approaching you or offer you a sentiment. Become cautious about the “groups” available in your community who were designed just for your situation.  Divorced, widowed and separated organizations are a great way to start.  Many local churches will support such group of community.  Single parents without their other half are a nationwide established group particularly designed to give single parents a place for themselves and their kids.

Raising a child on your own is accompanied with its unique challenges and rewards. To help you with your needs regarding on single parenting, these are some of the supportive resources for single parents.

If you are seeking for help in providing help for you not to feel isolated because you are a part of a single parent community, visit www.parentswithoutpartners.org which will help you offer an environment for support being a single parent.

For making every child in the US to be raised effectively and compassionately, contact National Effective Parenting Initiative through this link: www.effectiveparentingusa.org, Call them at 1(800) 325-2422 or write to them at:

National Effective Parenting Initiative
6260 Laurel Canyon Blvd. , Suite 304
North Hollywood , CA 91606

For information about single parenting; what it is, how to move on, what can be done to help the feeling of loneliness being single, etc. visit www.singleparentmagazine.net which focuses exclusively on single parent society, or contact them by mail at:
Single Parent Magazine
P.O Box 335852
North Las Vegas , NV 89033

For a community packed with other persons who also recognize the challenges you are facing, visit  www.singleparentsmingle.com for single parents who are looking forward to meet other single parents too.

For societal support for the need of parents to have time with their children, visit: www.familyandhome.org or mail them at:
Family and Home Network
P.O Box 492
Merrifield , VA 22116

Sensation of being alone is frustrating, a separateness that comes from the inside of a person. Being alone is more than just a need for company of others and is often absolutely a normal feeling. Newly single parents who are acquainted to the assistance and company of their partner find themselves alone without this assistance for the first several weeks and after the experience of separation cause a lot of loneliness as they modify their loss. This sense of being cut-off and alienated from others, if uncontrolled, is a serious, life-threatening situation impacting people in different ways. Conquering loneliness as a single parent needs understanding and managing what triggers might bring about the feeling of isolation.