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[quote=Anonymous]That’s a valid point. There was a time when my three favorite mommy bloggers- Dooce, Amalah and Sundry Mourning- all experienced a form of public breakdown and mental illness. All three of them excellent and loving moms; professional women; and uniquely gifted writers. However they shared in common this intense type of navel gazing and obsessive oversharing that made you as a reader almost uncomfortable. Of the three, Dooce’s marriage fell apart, her posts about sobriety were disturbing and her mental illness painfully detailed; Amy Storch (Amalah) left DC for the Baltimore/Elliot city area, experienced a heartbreaking suicide attempt, depression, has seemed to recover but had almost completely halted her online sharing; and Linda (Sundry) in Oregon suffered a horrendous public intoxication episode that could have cost her her marriage but seemed to rebuild it from the ground up, has worked to achieve her life balance and sobriety, and writes occasionally in this beautifully insightful style that finally seems to have struck the right tone. She’s not a mommy blogger, not an oversharer; she’s just a writer.
I am sad for Dooce but like Prince Harry and other oversharers in my generation, this type of obsessive unbidden sharing is not mentally healthy. Of course people will show up, read it, buy it, click it. They are watching the private, sacred, intimate inner workings of your life trainwrecked in a bloody mess across the landscape and they are thankful they are not you. 
Thankful for Jon and the girls that he rebuilt his life and seemingly has a good framework and support system for them. Will always remember her Letters to Leta ❤️[/quote]

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