Emily, a mum of three

In any big supermarket you'll look down the aisles and there will be lonely mums just like myself pushing buggies.

I stopped doing a big weekly shop just so I had an excuse to pop to the shops more often, even talking to the cashier - I won't go to those self-service things - just to get a bit of conversation.

My loneliness came about since I became a 'stay at home mum', as with the older two children I went back to work at eight months.

These days my whole life revolves around my husband the children and I don't I have the social life I once had.

People think you have got it easy because you are sitting at home doing nothing and I didn't think it was going to be as hard as it is.

My husband is often gone at 5am in the morning so I don't see him and not back until gone 6pm.

A lot of mums worked prior to having children and had careers and then all of a sudden you are stuck indoors.

You've got a bundle of joy but you haven't got adult conversation.

It is embarrassing thing to admit you are lonely and one of the hardest things to admit you are not 100 percent.

 

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