What? I thought it was a stay at home mom. How could she be a single mom and stay at home?

Oops. Might've read that wrong.

Well the only thing I read was the title

@Phalynx the father is around, but he works most of the day i would assume

Whenever i see grenade i crouch behind a wall or desk

👀

Just stop.

desk ain't gonna help you

this aint CS:GO

this is real life

Yeet

NiBBa has shrapnel.

Not only that, but the shockwave could kill you, too.

Shrapnel hits desk and shield :<

anyway a mother learning first hand why stay-at-home moms were the norm, and also what the phrase "it takes a village to raise a child" real meant

also why you don't have 2 kids back to back

its like having twins only you planned it.,

Pshh you can have 2 kids back to back and be fine

the mother has the means to hire a sitter but at the same time she would prefer to have her parents help raise the kids (who are only a little over 9 months apart)

https://tosdr.org/index.html#

lol CNN

oh you can, but this reads like a working class mother who realized that working in corporate is easy street compared to kids

also sounds like she wants this, despite it beating her up

Yeah I can see that

she goes on complaining how being a mother is draining and how miserable she is while all of her friends decide to stay with their careers

When society has been pressuring women to be men, I'm not surprised when women are shocked by what being a mother requires

almost like motherhood....is biologically ingrained in females... naw naw, thats just anti-science bs

the article is depressing 😢

i think you read this key part wrong "“You could afford a nanny, right?” I was on the phone with a friend in New York. She was drinking coffee from a paper cup. Going to an exercise class.

Yes, and for that I was very lucky, but how could I describe it? “It’s like I’m taking a sabbatical. A sabbatical in which I learn what it’s like to be a human mother.”'

"Hearing the taxis in the background reminded me of the years I’d spent in an office building. There were meetings to prepare for and banquets that didn’t end until after midnight in hotel ballrooms. But I had been single, and the weekends stretched out before me like marathons. One Saturday afternoon, when I was 27 and feeling bored after a boozy brunch with friends and a walk around the reservoir with my headphones in, I called my older brother one too many times to talk. He said, “You’re always alone, aren’t you?”"

Jesus christ

"Now I was needed. I was never alone.... Maybe the old me was not really dead, just changed, and the reward of my choice to stay home would not be better-off kids but a better-off self. I would return from my sabbatical with a broader perspective and a bigger heart, knowing something of the world that I hadn’t before."

Damn, son...

sounds like the realization of a hard lesson you didn't know you need but are glad you are learning

Kind of like when I started writing my book. I hated it at first, but then realized that I was good at it.

you are writing a book?

Sounds like she's been feed propaganda about how it's great to be a single woman in the work force until you die, then she realized she's alone, and having kids was something she never thought about until she had them, now she's reeling.

she is not a single mother

I didn't say she was

She was single until she was 27, then she realized that she was alone

Then got married, and had kids