I have never met a mother I wanted to trade places with

WHEN I LOOK BACK AND think about my own reaction to impending motherhood, I can’t help but see that my extreme distress was informed by anxiety that I wouldn’t be able to be a mother and be happy at the same time. Though my mother had three children, something about dealing with them consistently had been anathema to her core identity, as if she

I have never met a mother I wanted to trade places with

Mother, Maybe

Sarah Hoover • The Motherload: Episodes from the Brink of Motherhood

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