Remembering the Details

Chocolatl · 01-14-2013, 04:58 PM

New post: Crazy.

"I just wish we, as a culture, had a better way of honoring the move from non-parent to parent. You know -- like a bachelorette party before you get married? Because for all the wonders that a new life brings, there's a deep grief for the selves we have to bury in order to become parents. Our lives change drastically, yet it seems that the only recognition our culture gives is "Haha, now you have to clean up someone else's poop. " That morning in August was a birthday for not one but two people -- a baby and her mother. And a part of me had to go to make room for these two new lives."

01-14-2013, 04:58 PM	#5
Chocolatl Glutton for Gluttony Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 1,409	New post: Crazy. "I just wish we, as a culture, had a better way of honoring the move from non-parent to parent. You know -- like a bachelorette party before you get married? Because for all the wonders that a new life brings, there's a deep grief for the selves we have to bury in order to become parents. Our lives change drastically, yet it seems that the only recognition our culture gives is "Haha, now you have to clean up someone else's poop. " That morning in August was a birthday for not one but two people -- a baby and her mother. And a part of me had to go to make room for these two new lives."

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