First, my mum got a dodgy message on Facebook... When your heart has been broken, you really find out who your friends are.
‘Don’t worry, babe,’ my mate Bianca, 24, said. ‘I’ll find you a new bloke.’
‘He didn’t deserve you anyway,’ another friend, Ash, 28, said.
It was November 2015, and I’d just broken up with my boyfriend of a year, Stuart.
‘Come to mine and drown your sorrows any time,’ Bianca said. So I did, over white wine, several times..!
I’d known her and her husband Simon, 28, for years. They were so supportive. And they understood how hard it was for me being a single mum. I had a 3-year-old son called Harvey.
‘The right man won’t mind that,’ Bianca said.
And in January, just as she’d…
