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"I looked around the room, lonelier than I'd been before I'd gottenthere. I tried to seem busy while listened to the other (moms) hungrily interrogate each other. We sounded so desperate, so boring. Can you believe this is what our lives have been reduced to?Remember when we were real people?Remember feeling in charge of your life?..I kissed his head. He'd ruined my life but I loved him. I didn't hold it against him"

"When all your thoughts are shitty and even you don't trust them, why communicate them to the person you are supposed to live the most? Or so went the argument in my head. "

(re breast feeding) ".. Even when it got easier... I couldn't shake the feeling that I was doing something that had been oversold to me, something that was both more difficult and less important than all the books and websites and articles suggested. They had undervalued my time and my sanity. Or was it that they'd overestimated it? I couldn't figure out whether motherhood was showing me how strong I was or how weak"