What triggered your addiction?
Hi Mommy
Motherhood! I started out with a great career. Found a great guy. So was doing 2/2 things very well. Bought a home. 3/3. Got married to the great guy 4/4
Then, decided to try motherhood. husband was well enough established for me to not work. (Big mistake). Spent a few years home getting fat and depressed while dealing with a colicky, unapreciative infant. Self esteem was shot. Hours like this went by. Some nights I went out to our deck and put him to bed after dinner and drank a glass of wine on our deck. Got depressed.
I joined mothers groups that were titled "moms night to Whine" where we took babies out to the park, passed them around while we passed around cocktails. Set up weekly playdates to commisurate with other neighborhood moms. Gained more weight.
Finally went back to work after my second child, dropped the weight - i swear it was the anti depressants- that brought that on
I still think the world expects way to much of mothers. We think they are supposed to be super skinny, happy & productive way to soon. Its unrealistic and most women get depressed
The only way it works is to find a job that respects work/life balance. Can take a long time!
Hi Mommy
Motherhood! I started out with a great career. Found a great guy. So was doing 2/2 things very well. Bought a home. 3/3. Got married to the great guy 4/4
Then, decided to try motherhood. husband was well enough established for me to not work. (Big mistake). Spent a few years home getting fat and depressed while dealing with a colicky, unapreciative infant. Self esteem was shot. Hours like this went by. Some nights I went out to our deck and put him to bed after dinner and drank a glass of wine on our deck. Got depressed.
I joined mothers groups that were titled "moms night to Whine" where we took babies out to the park, passed them around while we passed around cocktails. Set up weekly playdates to commisurate with other neighborhood moms. Gained more weight.
Finally went back to work after my second child, dropped the weight - i swear it was the anti depressants- that brought that on
I still think the world expects way to much of mothers. We think they are supposed to be super skinny, happy & productive way to soon. Its unrealistic and most women get depressed
The only way it works is to find a job that respects work/life balance. Can take a long time!
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