Your Kid Isn’t Your Friend Either

Codependency is a two-lane highway.

Photo by Mael Balland via Unsplash

My first husband and I split up when my daughter was two and a half years old. I was 32 and it was a young age to suddenly figure out how to raise a child on your own.

There is nothing I have done in my entire life that has made me more nervous than raising a human being. There is a margin of error in parenting and…