For the one doing it alone: Words for everything you carry that nobody counts

By Lio Grey

Some people spend years carrying entire families without ever stopping to measure the weight.

For the One Doing It Alone is a collection of fragments that mirror the experience of raising children alone. The invisible labor, the exhaustion, the fear, and the love that makes it possible. The financial pressure. The overstimulation. The responsibility of being the one who has to keep things running, no matter how exhausted they are. The small moments nobody else notices.

This is not a parenting manual. There is no advice here.

It is a book for the people who keep functioning while running on empty. The ones who hold everything together quietly, carry fear without showing it, and continue anyway because someone has to.
This book puts words to the realities many single parents live through every day, and the strength it takes to carry on.
And despite it all, they keep going.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H58XJ9NB
• ISBN13: 9798181532441
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.0"