We all get there in different ways - but sometimes the stories are eerily similar. Just curious, how did you become a single parent?

Please share the story of how/why you're a single parent. Introduce yourself, let's get to know each other.

Here is my story..

I was 16 when I meet my ex husband in 1999 I was a good girl.. Oh course, I didn't know this at the time but I had turned into a challenge for him the moment he told me he wanted to sleep with me and I said I was a virgin and wouldn't sleep with him .. a couple months later we started dating, at the time I was being paid attention to and I felt loved.. about 6 months later We got engaged, at 16 I had a engagement ring..1 1/2 after we first meet we slept together for the first time.. He promised me the moon.. I got pregnant about 4 months after that and my Grandmother who I was living with at the time while going to college and working kicked me out.. I had to drop out of college and quite my job and Move in with him.. The kicker.. He moved and now lived 177 miles in Enumclaw WA from my home town Portland.. I get there and become really sick.. We get married about a month after I moved with money I had in savings from my job.. Yes my mother sign a release to let me get married so young.. It become impossible for me to work... He was making about 15bucks an hour working grave yard but we had no medical and I had never seen a DR.. I was sick to the point of going blind for 20mins randomly.. At 7 months I get on state medical coverage and they tell me I have lost 35lbs.. I still don't know why I was sick.. My grandmother told me I would lose my son.. My Husband freaks out at that point.. He joins the Navy and ships me home to my grandmother who now loves me again because I am married.. My husband leaves a couple days after I get back to Portland.. Till 2005 I think I have somehow won the love lottery.. I had a husband, the cutest son ever, a dog, a great career, a house, 2 motorcycles, and a truck.. I didn't have any wants.. My husband was shipped to Guam.. It was to be for 6 months.. Not long enough for me to go because it takes 3 months to get your dog out of quarantine and we had the house and I had my job.. So I stayed.. I was a member of myspace to keep in touch with my little sister in Portland.. I asked him to join.. His email came back saying he already had one..
My life changed.. It said he was a single guy in Guam that didn't LIKE kids.. That wouldn't turn down a relationship..I spent the next 3 months trying to figure it out without confronting him.. I even meet up with him in HI and we talked about how we could work on our relationship while he was away.. Then a friend who husband was also there told me he was staying a striper's house and not his.. Then his Myspace posted Pictures of a Girl wearing the top half of his cracker jacks and Nothing else.. I know it was his because you could read his name tag.. So I went to the Jag office and asked for a separation.. They said "They couldn't help me because my husband had already been there for that".. That meant he had gone before he left and realized He might need me in the states so he hadn't given me the papers.. So I went to a different base.. Filed for it then called him and told him.. He was due back in a couple weeks.. He told me he didn't want to come home.. It turns out he had meet a girl and was gonna try and tell the navy her and her kid was me and our kid and get them all moved back.. He went to Saipan on a cruise and got run over by a scooter.. I was the first one he called.. I don't know how much that call cost us.. It wasn't even a week after all these. I laughed after making sure he was okay.. When he got back to Guam he found out she had cheated on him. He served him right, Becasue our friends for years where coming to me and telling me about how long I had been cheated on.. But the worst came from him.. He had never loved me.. He was cheating on me when I got pregnant and only married me to do the right thing.. I tired to move forward with a divorce but he used the military he volunteered to stay overseas to avoid the courts.. I finally gave up my job, my house, my dog, and moved back to Portland.. It has been 3 1/2 years since I left him now and I just got divorced 3 months ago.. My son has seen his dad a total of 13 times in that time frame including our trip to HI.. When you can get him on the phone he lies about how next time well be different.. I am happy OR has that required parent class when you get divorced.. I toke it right after I left him in 2005.. But it helps to write things out. My son asks why we aren't with his dad.. and I only say his dad broke a promise to god and me..