Elise Loehnen writes in recent New York Times article about her mother's ambivalence to motherhood and how that impacted her upbringing.
Several years ago, I had coffee with a colleague to discuss her writing class in the DC jail.
In one of her students' essays, a memoir, the author wrote, "My Mom was addicted to her life."
These words have stayed with me--I am addicted to my life. Who isn't? And yes, I am a mother. But, as Elise Loehnen says in "The Lies Mothers Tell Their Children and Themselves," "You can love your kids deeply and hate being a mom. You can hold your children to the bone and still proclaim how sucky it is to be a female parent, in America at least..."
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