Charlie Higginson

I felt quite forgotten at the start of the pandemic. 

There were no support bubbles. 

Children with separated parents could travel between homes but there was no provision at all for totally lone parents to have any childcare or contact with other adults even. 

You can sometimes feel a bit on the outskirts of society as a lone parent and it did feel very lonely at times. Especially as, at that time, I was really fearful of what would happen if I got COVID and how I would care for the boys and myself. It was a very intense time. That said, I think there was a really important shift in our family dynamic. 

Since Andy died I’ve filled all our spare time with activities and socialising because it somehow felt like we were incomplete as a family of three. But lockdown did really bring it home that this is our family now and we are enough, just us three.