The "good enough mother"
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| Gender | Female |
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| Location | Western, United States |
| Introduction | I am a clinical social worker who fought an extraordinarily long and difficult fight to have children only to find that I am quite ambivalent most days about my decision to stay home full time. Doing this right, being a good mother, a fun mother, is the most important thing to me, and yet I am wracked with mommy guilt, I feel like I have lost a fundamental part of me that I can't go on living without. Can I settle for the notion that kids don't need a perfect mother, but the "good enough" mother, and can I pull out of this isolated funk that NO ONE talks about before my kids really do notice my insecurity and neurosis? My hope is that there are others in my same boat, who need support, but don't know where to get it, or are too afraid to ask. It is only in the light of day that problems are solved (or in the light of anonymous cyber space, but whatever). So, I will allow anonymous comments, unless they become rude and/or disrespectful, and then everyone will need to log in with a username. I hope people will enjoy this as a safe haven! |
Which do you prefer and why: whittling with soap or whistling with wood?
You ever hadsoap put in YOUR mouth for back talking? I believe I whistlie wiid all the day long, thank you very much!