You expressed that shift of "center" so beautifully here. That all the survival/security skills at our disposal suddenly become displaced onto someone else.
As important as I believe my job is as a mother to my girls, I am not satisfied with thinking of that as my be-all and end-all: that my purpose in life is raising my girls. I want to be an independent person with my own vocation, apart from shepherding them to adulthood.
THANK YOU for writing this. It's so hard to explain this, sometimes -- that yes, being a mother is marvelous, rewarding, etc. but that only being a mother is not necessarily an end goal for me -- there are many, many other things I want to do, independent of motherhood and in some ways equally as important to me.
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As important as I believe my job is as a mother to my girls, I am not satisfied with thinking of that as my be-all and end-all: that my purpose in life is raising my girls. I want to be an independent person with my own vocation, apart from shepherding them to adulthood.
THANK YOU for writing this. It's so hard to explain this, sometimes -- that yes, being a mother is marvelous, rewarding, etc. but that only being a mother is not necessarily an end goal for me -- there are many, many other things I want to do, independent of motherhood and in some ways equally as important to me.