SINGLE MOM, THE GAME.
You’ll never talk back to yours again.
New video game called SINGLE MOM. After choosing your character\attributes (beauty, fitness, intelligence, academic achievement, street smarts, inherited wealth, family legacy, career, mental illness, etc...) the game opens in a divorce proceeding. The judge’s determination sets the game in motion.
You get custody of the two kids. Morning one: wake up and get them fed and dressed for school. It’s a lot to manage. Maybe consider sending one to boarding school… it’s expensive, but could really make your day a lot easier…. As long as they don’t get into trouble. Do you put them on medication to make them behave better? This might lower your family’s qualitative love score. But, they get better grades and of course the possibility of getting strung out and running with the wrong crowd. Pluses and minuses to every decision!
They need to be driven to school. You have to manage your time. If you miss driving them to the bus stop in the morning, you get stuck driving them all the way to school and miss Pilates. Miss pilates too many times and you’ll get fat… forget finding a new partner.
Were you the primary breadwinner in your past relationship? If so, you might have to pay palimony… If not, you get alimony and child support. Not having to work full time frees up your day and allows you to work on a side hustle to make some extra cash, do some day drinking with your girlfriends which increases your qualitative happiness score… as long as you don’t ever do it. Maybe you even meet a rich female lover? Huge increase in qualitative happiness score…. but If you’re not discrete, this can permanently damage your social standing in the neighborhood. You might even get a “reputation” as an unfit mother. Your kid might not get invited to the sleep over and you’ll never get laid on the weekends.
The goal is to raise the kids to age 18 and get them off to a good school and watch them have a happy successful life. There are infinite paths to this outcome, each with their own pitfalls. What do you feed them when they were young? Healthy food that makes their brains grow and keeps them more well adjusted, but costs more? Or cheap calories that promote unhealth but frees up capital for a social media advisor for the kid’s iG feed and YouTube Channel? Regular and expensive doctor visits to fight off disease? Take your chances with herbal remedies? Vaccines? Church? Even your choice of babysitter can affect changes….
Did you, spend all of your inheritance on plastic surgery to make yourself more desirable, meet a rich guy who you hate, drink and take drugs to deal with the shame and unhappiness of your new relationship, and barely squeak by without dying? You might not have a great connection with your kids, but you could afford tutors so they went Ivy League.
Or did you, deprive yourself of sleep to work two jobs to pay for private school so your kids would have a leg up and get into great colleges, but find yourself stressed out, overweight and unhealthy - having a heart attack at their graduation?
Or did you, move to a commune to have kids raised by a group therefore giving you a less stressful life, but run the risk that after a hippy-ish life the kids might not want to go to college when they turn 18? Maybe they were molested by the guru and one commits suicide? Or maybe one runs away because you weren’t involved enough?
Sign in and find out. Single player ONLY.