Lesley Ure – Lonely weekends

Your family, they’ll try and be there for you and support you but ultimately you’ve got involved in something that they can’t control either and they have their own lives so I remember weekends always being particularly lonely, and I don’t know if other people experienced this because you don’t really want to bother your family, so with my sisters, they would have been working all week and really wanting the weekend and probably going out for dinner with their partners and enjoying themselves.

You feel like you wouldn’t want to intrude on their relationships so that was always a thing for me.

Weekends were quite lonely, during the week was fine, you know everyone was in their routines but weekend were quite difficult and I suppose going to events on your own as well, you’re always responsible for your children.

You can’t share the parenting. It’s on you and so it was hard, again when they were smaller. As they got older, to be honest we didn’t really notice it as much. It was a case of, ‘Oh, are you home or not, can you come to this or not? Ok that’s fine or if you are that’s great” but yes, I don’t suppose I had anybody around me really that understood what I was going through.

I would meet people at events but not really continue with those relationships so I’m not quite sure why that is.