I found your blog fairly recently, and I just wanted to say an enormous THANK YOU for speaking this truth. It has been so incredibly validating to see that I'm not the only one experiencing this and that I'm not crazy for feeling like this is not ok. The additional layer of this mom guilt is the feeling that we're weak if we express it to each other or anyone else, so we often suffer in silence, thinking that's just what we're supposed to do. Thank you for speaking out on this.
I found your blog fairly recently, and I just wanted to say an enormous THANK YOU for speaking this truth. It has been so incredibly validating to see that I'm not the only one experiencing this and that I'm not crazy for feeling like this is not ok. The additional layer of this mom guilt is the feeling that we're weak if we express it to each other or anyone else, so we often suffer in silence, thinking that's just what we're supposed to do. Thank you for speaking out on this.
And at the end of it all, when I finally left - I was told I was 'not maternal'.
Because I chose to go back to work. Because I chose to take time out for myself. Because I broke up the family.
NO ONE gets to tell me what the definition of maternal is, especially not a male.