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This totally triggered me, Jessica 😂 I went through this transition mostly alone. I was lucky enough to have babies at the same time as many of my friends -- but then all but one of them quit working. I was glad I had people to talk to about all the things you talk about when you have kids that are the same age, but working motherhood was a whole other level. I'll always be grateful to my organization for giving me the time, space, and grace to figure out how to do it -- not to mention pumping; I'm not even going to get into pumping -- and I am glad that I had one friend, but it was unspeakably hard. (I am still easily riled about this topic.)
I still have days where I have tears in my eyes after dropping my kids at school or daycare, and it's never my friends who stay at home with their kids who I text in those moments, you know? Some things are specific to to this particular kind of motherhood -- if you know, you know, and if you don't, there always a kind of gap between our understanding of one another's lives.
This totally triggered me, Jessica 😂 I went through this transition mostly alone. I was lucky enough to have babies at the same time as many of my friends -- but then all but one of them quit working. I was glad I had people to talk to about all the things you talk about when you have kids that are the same age, but working motherhood was a whole other level. I'll always be grateful to my organization for giving me the time, space, and grace to figure out how to do it -- not to mention pumping; I'm not even going to get into pumping -- and I am glad that I had one friend, but it was unspeakably hard. (I am still easily riled about this topic.)
I still have days where I have tears in my eyes after dropping my kids at school or daycare, and it's never my friends who stay at home with their kids who I text in those moments, you know? Some things are specific to to this particular kind of motherhood -- if you know, you know, and if you don't, there always a kind of gap between our understanding of one another's lives.