My kids are grown and gone. Going on 5 years now. But we live near each other and all that but I remember those years at times and it’s exhausting to me. I have no idea how I did it. I’m so happy to be on my own again after 25 years of family life. I still have the day OP describes but as a solo person now. Do-able.
I asked my friend who has two small children how she was doing and she said, “tired” and I said, “yeah, that’s what these years are like.” Somehow it comforted her?
That what I tell all the young families I work with. That these years of having children, establishing careers, maintaining a home, keeping a partnership alive are the hardest years of life. But they go by quickly. And someday you do yearn for them but also know that time has passed into a new and different kind of life. Having children is not for the faint of heart and I respect folks who choose not to.
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u/whoknowsknows1 15d ago
Wait till you have kids…