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“My mum is my superhero.” ❤️ I remember that exact moment. And how the ground completely fell out from under my feet. My name is Aurora Weiss. I’m 32 years old, a single mum, and I live in Dublin, in a small rented flat in Rathmines, with my daughter Sophie. Sophie’s dad… that’s a complicated story. When we split up, he swore he’d help. Said he wouldn’t just walk away. Said he was still her father and would always take responsibility. The maintenance money comes whenever he remembers to send it. Sometimes €120. Most of the time — nothing. Eventually, I stopped counting on it. Stopped calling. Stopped asking. I simply learned to live as if he didn’t exist. Because relying on someone who constantly lets you down somehow hurts even more. I work as a housekeeper in a hotel. Every morning it’s someone else’s beds, someone else’s towels, someone else’s rooms. You become almost invisible. Guests walk straight past you without even looking. Sometimes they leave a tip. Sometimes they leave nothing except dirty towels, empty bottles and a complete mess after a night out. Nine or ten hours on my feet every day. My back aches constantly, but I’ve almost got used to it by now. You spend all day cleaning beautiful hotel rooms and then come home to your tiny rented flat and think: So this is how the world works. I get Child Benefit, which helps, of course. But until you’re raising a child on your own, you don’t really understand how quickly everything disappears. School. Clothes. Public transport. Electricity. Heating. Groceries. Our small two-bedroom flat costs €1,750 a month in rent. Then there’s electricity, heating, bin collection, food and everything else. By the end of the month, there’s practically nothing left. I learned to cut back on absolutely everything for myself. New clothes? Forget it. Going out with friends? Almost never. Ordering food? Not happening. But the hardest part was when I couldn’t afford even the smallest things for Soph
