Oh my god. This was both beautiful and heartbreaking to read. My two children are 17 and 22 years old but I can feel this in every cell of my body STILL. Your post should not have the word "rant" anywhere in it, much less in the subtitle. This is not a rant. This is real. This is life. This is unfair. This is motherhood. This is sad. Yes, it is a privilege. You are privileged. But whether you are leaving your child at a daycare to work as a maid or closing the door of a study to leave your child with a partner—the core issue, the root of this, remains the same: motherhood is hard as fuck.
Oof, thanks Theresa for reading and echoing this hard truth back to me ❤️ Your words are powerful too. At least when we share and talk about our experience, we're not alone.
On a totally unrelated note, I'm wondering if I know you IRL or else how you discovered my Substack? It's mostly friends and acquaintances on here to be honest, and every time we've talked I wonder if you're a long lost cousin? :D
Thank you, I enjoyed reading and can remember and relate so much! Now that my kids are 7 and 11 it has become much easier. eventually, they do sleep consistently through the nights :) I wish you all the best for your journey AM :-*
Hey Veronika, good to hear from you! Thanks for reading ❤️ Glad to hear it gets easier, my hypothesis so far was that it just gets harder with time 😅 I'm lucky my kid sleeps pretty well, I'm just waiting for the day he can play independently for more than 1 minutes so Mama can get something done 😅 But also trying to soak up this time while he's still little. Anyway thanks for connecting, one mom to another :)
Oh my god. This was both beautiful and heartbreaking to read. My two children are 17 and 22 years old but I can feel this in every cell of my body STILL. Your post should not have the word "rant" anywhere in it, much less in the subtitle. This is not a rant. This is real. This is life. This is unfair. This is motherhood. This is sad. Yes, it is a privilege. You are privileged. But whether you are leaving your child at a daycare to work as a maid or closing the door of a study to leave your child with a partner—the core issue, the root of this, remains the same: motherhood is hard as fuck.
Oof, thanks Theresa for reading and echoing this hard truth back to me ❤️ Your words are powerful too. At least when we share and talk about our experience, we're not alone.
On a totally unrelated note, I'm wondering if I know you IRL or else how you discovered my Substack? It's mostly friends and acquaintances on here to be honest, and every time we've talked I wonder if you're a long lost cousin? :D
Thank you, I enjoyed reading and can remember and relate so much! Now that my kids are 7 and 11 it has become much easier. eventually, they do sleep consistently through the nights :) I wish you all the best for your journey AM :-*
Hey Veronika, good to hear from you! Thanks for reading ❤️ Glad to hear it gets easier, my hypothesis so far was that it just gets harder with time 😅 I'm lucky my kid sleeps pretty well, I'm just waiting for the day he can play independently for more than 1 minutes so Mama can get something done 😅 But also trying to soak up this time while he's still little. Anyway thanks for connecting, one mom to another :)