Friendships. Women. I've been thinking about both lately. While I have always appreciated friendship I now crave it. I think that women especially need to be able to commisserate with other women. In talking with a friend of mine over the telephone it became apparent that although our lives are extremely different and our timetables are not the same we still endure the same emotions when it comes to motherhood and selfhood. As my friends and I are now closer to 40 than 30...(okay...than 35 even-gulp) we are feeling a tad bit "stuck" in between the demands of motherhood and the rising desire to shift our focus to ourselves.
For many in our generation our mothers stayed at home. But there were still plenty of us whose mothers were beginning to go back to work. That has us floundering a bit as we try to balance our own lives against the backdrop of our youth. We want so badly to be there for our kids...to ensure that they have stability and our presence. The problem with that is with us working full time we have no time for ourselves. A couple of hours or even a whole day is simply not enough of a recharge. We aren't wishing our kids away we're just wishing.
For many in our generation our mothers stayed at home. But there were still plenty of us whose mothers were beginning to go back to work. That has us floundering a bit as we try to balance our own lives against the backdrop of our youth. We want so badly to be there for our kids...to ensure that they have stability and our presence. The problem with that is with us working full time we have no time for ourselves. A couple of hours or even a whole day is simply not enough of a recharge. We aren't wishing our kids away we're just wishing.
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