like, sure, “the joys of parenthood” or whatever. but just seeing the emotional, mental, and physical load placed on moms? how your entire identity is reduced to just being a mother? how the expectation and standard is radically raised after creating a new life even tho you were the only one sacrificing for it? how terrible the life long side effects are and how most women never fully recover from child birth? then i gotta be the kin keeper for the rest of my life?! omfg

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I am genuinely too selfish to care for another human being that relies on me fully it’s MY MONEY MY TIME and MY HOUSE

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that’s valid. i feel like a mothers love is so different than any other kind of love you can experience. i work with kids and i see it everyday and there’s definitely hard times and difficult experiences, but ive been told even by mothers who weren’t sure at first if they wanted to be moms that their whole entire life changed as soon as they held their baby in their hands and all they wanted to do was love and take care of them. it’s not for everyone though. there’s a lot of bad but there’s also

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