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[quote=Anonymous]It starts getting easier when you recognize that the amount of responsibility you have at home isn’t going to change much, and you take steps to figure out how to live this way long term and enjoy your life instead of powering through it.  
This isn’t medical school or law school.  It isn’t something that you just set your jaw and grit it out for a few years until you get to the finish line.  It isn’t just a few years, and there is no finish line.  It’s just life.  
Being a mother is like being a daughter or a sister or a wife.  Yes.  You can be better or worse at it, but no one is perfect, and there are times that it’s easy and times that it’s hard.  Ironically, the hard times aren’t necessarily the times of illness and stress like you thought they would be.  But, like any relationship, if you find yourself wishing it away, then you are missing the point.

I said earlier that there is no finish line, but I’m going to take that back.  There is.  And you have crossed it.  You finished school, got the job, found the husband, had the kids.  You did all of the things to get your life set up.  If this isn’t the finish line, then what is?  When kids start elementary school?  When they move out?  Retirement?  You can wish your whole life away like this.

You are here.  You have all of the things.  It isn’t going to “get better.”  
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