Do you ever feel like you are failing as a parent?

It's tough being a single parent of an only child. It's tough working real hard to cope with a mental illness at the same time raising a young boy.
A boy who sadly alongside me has lived as a victim of emotional,psychological and financial abuse from his own father!
We have finally are free from this nasty piece of work!
The price I paid for our freedom was too high...it had to be done.

Now, every day it gets clearer on the damage...its like a pile of rubble so high...I need to sort thru...to finally start a life worth living.
It's not easy when my Son has shut down his emotions because his Dad hurt him deeply.
All he wants to do is stay in his room...
Can't reach him atm and it breaks my heart.