i think my son hates me
But just as surely, another part of me wanted to manage the threat of his potential independence by subsuming him into myself. It was tempting to treat the baby as a prop for my own narratives of motherhood rather than as an independent person in his own right. But babies give no quarter to our preconceived ideas of what mothering them
... See moreJessie Munton • Slaves to Love | The Point Magazine
I’ll never forget the night.
Laying in bed awake at ~2a next to our (then) 3yr old son. I matched my breathing with his. As I did, I noticed a sharp pain in my chest.
I stayed with the pain, and kept with the breathing.
The pain bloomed into an overwhelming and ... See more
Derek R. Haswellx.comOne of the things that has continuously amazed me about my son is the paradox of how much he seems to love life versus how much he loathes so many of the basic things we must do to keep him alive.