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[quote=Anonymous]Geez, women really are their own worst enemies, right?

Do you remember who you were before you were a mom?  How you looked at the world?  Try to go back to college, or high school, and to the days before you judged others who weren't exactly like you.

Didn't you take for granted that there were lots of different people in the world?  Weren't some people shy, some outgoing?  Some people organized and other spontaneous?  Some were morning people, some night owls?  Some creative and others business minded?  Messy vs. clean?

With so many different types of people on the planet, who on earth do we suddenly get sucked into a funnel when we become mothers and all have to live up to the same ideal of the ALL PERFECT MOTHER?

It is this ideal that is the true enemy of all mothers.  The ALL PERFECT MOTHER ideal that has somehow crept into a woman's head after she becomes a mom, always there as a comparison for what we are doing right and what we are doing wrong.  This ideal is spun together from memories of her own mother (good and bad), her own research, society's expectations, etc.  And if someone doesn't live up to the ALL PERFECT MOTHER ideal, then they must be WRONG and should be judged, judged, judged.

Why don't we all go back in time to when we were allowed to be different and unique.  Where we accepted that not everyone had to be just like us.  Really, the world would be such a better place if mothers could just support and empathize and stop with the attacks on people who are different from you and your IDEAL PERFECT MOTHER.

Because, if dear God, mothers can't support one another---how on earth with the rest of society and the government ever value us, either?[/quote]

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