You can be a single mother even if your partner is present in your children's lives and this is Maria's case. In love with her husband, the woman soon becomes a mother but unfortunately, when the eldest daughter is just a few years old, the man discovers he is suffering from a serious psychiatric illness.
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
