My question is about finding love as a single mother by choice to a baby girl, who I conceived

with a donor via IVF. I am a completely different person now, as you can imagine, to how I was

before. I was living in a foreign country, living and

working abroad, and decided to move back to my hometown to be closer to my family and my friends

and my community because having that network of support has been absolutely invaluable.

And I'm also considering a change of career. I've been able to fulfill some financial

goals that I could only really fulfill here. And so all in all, my life has just opened up to so

many possibilities and my daughter has brought me so much love and so much joy that, you know,

my heart bursts when I just think about it.

But my life now is my identity, in fact, is just completely different.

And I don't really know who I am now as a mother, as a person, as a woman.

And finding love, given those kind of uncertainties, is a little bit scary and I don't really

know where to start with it. So although I'm not in a rush, I'm a year on, my daughter is very much

still my priority. I still have obviously obviously, my needs and my desires.

And I'm trying to figure out how to balance those with my daughter,

who is not just a part of my life, she is my life.

And I'm wondering how I go about doing that.

You know, the kind of man that I would have chosen before

is certainly not suitable in any way for my daughter,

especially for my daughter.

For me, of course, but the idea of them providing a role model

that has changed.

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