Seeing the Single Moms in Your Community
Focus on Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Everyone you encounter has a story, and we want to encourage you to see the single moms around you. Jim Daly speaks with PeggySue Wells, who shares her story of becoming a single mom, and how hard it was. Then, John and Danny offer tips for how to help a single mother in your community.
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| 0:00.0 | As I've met people over the years, I've kind of come to the determination that we all carry a suitcase. |
| 0:07.5 | We're dragging a suitcase around, and sometimes there are a lot of rocks in it. |
| 0:10.6 | Sometimes it's a little bit lighter. Sometimes it's really heavy. I want to encourage you to stop |
| 0:16.4 | and recognize those who have a heavy suitcase behind them, especially the single moms in your life. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm John Fuller, along with the head of our parenting team, Dr. Danny Werta. |
| 0:27.1 | And let's turn now to a conversation that focused on the family president, Jim Dalyhead, |
| 0:31.6 | with Pam Farrell and her friend Peggy Sue Wells. |
| 0:34.7 | Peggy Sue spent a number of years as a single mom, and she shared very |
| 0:39.2 | transparently about how she ended up as a single mom. Peggy Sue, you have a different story |
| 0:46.4 | in this single motherhood journey. Describe what happened with you and your husband. How old |
| 0:52.5 | were the kids? What was going on? Yeah, the oldest was |
| 0:55.2 | graduating high school and the youngest was a year old. And it was kind of the same thing where there'd |
| 0:59.8 | been a lot of travel in the career. So there would be times where, you know, it was just being the |
| 1:04.4 | kids, motoring along, doing fine. And then, you know, he would come home for a while and then he'd be gone again and we just kind of like had life like that for a while and then things just began to escalate and as they began escalating it finally reached a point |
| 1:15.6 | where I had to say you know we just all gathered together in the family room and I said you know |
| 1:19.7 | this isn't a good situation you know it's not good for kids to see that this is how adults interact |
| 1:25.2 | it's not good for us to you know have that this is what family looks like It's not good for us to, you know, have that this is what family |
| 1:27.9 | looks like. It's damaging. So we have to make a decision. We have to decide if we're going to make |
| 1:33.0 | some shifts here, or we have to decide that I have to put some boundaries up, that this has to be |
| 1:37.7 | safe for the family. And so everybody got to make a choice. And, you know, people do what they do |
| 1:43.7 | for their own reasons. I think it has everything to do with me. And, you know, people do what they do for their own reasons. |
| 1:45.1 | I think it has everything to do with me. |
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