having gone to Art college, my ex walked out on us, saying he would not live with a woman better educated than he was - my art college was very supportive on the student level, alone in a strange city and no money what so ever /no alimony=my fault?/ but we coped. One mature student friend, Art Literature Sheffield Psalter lane student Steve, came round often to play chess with my two young sons and chat with them. It was greatly appreciated as their older brother had not long ago gone to Uni and it gave them a sort of older brother to bond with..He also got on well with the foreign students I took in to give us some sort of income.