Says a woman in her 30’s…
It seems like the ideas that I am most resistant to, or fight the hardest against, become the most significant moments and events in my life. “I will never” … “That’s not me” … “I will always”, are a few of the absolutes that I am trying to say less, or at least pay more attention to, when I do say them. I’ve seen something happening with these type statements. It’s my absolutes that always come back around, have me eating my own words and re-thinking everything.
Once parenthood really set in for me, I became one of those Moms that openly admitted I could never be a SAHM. I can remember commenting that I would gladly donate a third of my pay to daycare. Don’t judge…I know it sounds awful, but it’s the truth and pertains to how absolute I was about the idea.
Then I had my son. Something very difficult very odd started happening. As my three month maternity leave began to come to an…
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