"I’m a single mum living in a sharehouse with other mums"

I remember I was standing in the shower, just letting the water wash over me, thinking ‘wow’. It was the first time I had been able to have a shower uninterrupted since my first child was born. I didn’t have to rush, and I wasn’t consoling a crying baby or singing the opening lines of In The Night Garden while hurriedly trying to get the conditioner out of my hair.

And I was able to do this because I knew my kids were playing with another mum in the next room – a mum who understood the single mum’s need for time out, because she was one too.

Read Margaret Ambrose's article on SBS.