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[quote=Anonymous]I wonder if we’ve been taught to think that women don’t have any other interests but their children, so when someone has a baby, the public assumes that woman must have reach the apex of her life satisfaction and the only thing that would make her happier was if someone else obsessed about their child as well.

When my friends had children, I stopped reaching out to them because I thought I was no longer relevant to their life. My first instinct was to assume that nothing could make them happier than the happiness of their children and so that they were dedicating all their energy to that. Only now that I’m about to have a child myself do I relive how lonely new motherhood must be.

It’s good that you and others and we speak up about that.  Our well-intended friends need to know that we still want everything a whole person wants (attention, care, friends, a non-child-related identity, sex, beauty, free time, etc.) but on top of that we have one more aspect of life that for a while requires a lot of responsibility.

How are YOU doing?[/quote]

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