In the end it turns out that life is not as we were told. Choose some studies with a professional outlet, look for a perfect boyfriend, take a mortgage on a spacious apartment (or, if possible, a small house with a garden) and form a beautiful family with several offspring running around you. Everything in its proper measure, everything in due time and you will achieve vital harmony thanks to this welfare society. And you have struggled all your life and, for a moment, you seemed to have it all, until you came face to face with reality.
What was and what could have been
- And your life could have been as balanced as it was supposed to be. Until one day, your husband and loving father of your children said that he was leaving because that life did not make him happy. And there you are left with a divorce on your hands, two children to educate alone and a job where the concept of “flexible hours” is unknown.
- Goodbye to your detached house, goodbye to your holidays with the children in Disneyland, because now it’s time to rent an apartment where the landlord looks at you with suspicion for being a divorced mother and because he is not very sure that you can afford the expenses you alone.
- You don’t have time for anything and on top of that, your friends reproach you for not dedicating time to them, visits to your parents ‘ house turn into a litany of reproaches for the rudeness you are giving your children, and your ex-husband is not there. interested in increasing the visitation regime so as not to miss his tennis match with friends.
- You are not alone’. Because that is the same story that a large part (if not the majority) of women live, including Cristina Medina in Sólala, a play that has been making women from half the world reflect and laugh for years and that until May 28 will ensure that we do not feel alone at the Teatro Infanta Isabel in Madrid.
Survive from day to day
- As the show itself teaches, in this situation you are going to need kilos of sense of humor to avoid falling into a state of permanent anguish. Try to live in the present and not think too much about what future awaits you and your children. Go solving the problems as they come, do not anticipate.
- Try by all means to make your children accomplices in the situation; if things don’t go well, they will have to grow up early and look at their family from a different perspective. Keep in mind that in difficult times, when there really is love, people tend to grow closer.
- Ask for help. One thing is that the responsibilities are for you alone and another thing is that nobody lends you a hand. If you have your parents or sisters nearby, do not hesitate to turn to them to help you with the children. And if you can’t count on the family, change the chip and discover solidarity. You are not the only one who has to face daily obligations alone, so you will surely find other women in your same situation to help each other.