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[quote=Anonymous]I have kids but I absolutely was as tired as I am now before I had kids. I had a couple terrible jobs with insane hours and really awful bosses and I would absolutely say that is worse than being a working mom with a sane job and a good boss. I used to have to pull all nighters several times a month to meet unreasonable deadlines, I had work land on my desk at 6:30pm that someone had just sat on all day and someone high up needed "ASAP". I had to cancel vacations regularly for last minute work travel. I was miserable and got ulcers and had bad skin and was clinically depressed.

I also used to go out on the weekends and party, get hung over, and complain about being tired.

My life now is better in pretty much ever way, and if a childless person wants to complain to me about being tired, I will listen and empathize. Being tired sucks, feeling like you can't catch up with your life or you don't have enough time for basic self care also sucks. Life can be hard for anyone and kids aren't even in my top 10 of "hardest things" because they are also so rewarding and delightful in other ways. I'd rather be a parent to young children during a pandemic than have my old job, be diagnosed with or have a close family member diagnosed with cancer or another debilitating illness, live in poverty, have clinical depression and anxiety, and many other things.

My kids wear me out but they give me hugs and yesterday when I told my DD I had to lie down instead of play with her because I was so exhausted, she made up a game where she placed all her stuffed animals on my back and they gave me massages so I could feel better. [/quote]

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