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[quote=Anonymous]I read the article. A thought... I'm an single mother by choice and while I have my moments of being "touched out," in a weird way it's kind of freeing to only "owe" my child my time and physicality. I think one of the "scams" is the notion that women are to give their whole physical and mental selves over to BOTH their child and their partner. To your point about head space OP, I have every evening and every naptime to be completely in my own head. And physcially speaking, after giving birth, there was no one expecting sex from me at a time when my entire body was literally given over to keeping my tiny human alive. Now that my child is in preschool, I'm starting to find I have the physical and mental space to date again and give parts of myself to another person - but I think that women are expected to do this like weeks after giving birth is its own scam. [/quote]
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