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I’ve just been at the office for 5 days now and already my head is ‘literally’ spinning. I thought my husband was due to be in training 1 day late, and went 1 day early to my dentist (had to get permission to leave office and then again the correct next day – not easy). I happen to be the ‘head’ of the household ie organize finances and earn the primary salary, you know: do the taxes, know what we need in terms of groceries and insurances.
But, now I’m a mummy too, a working, ambitious mummy.
Adjusting to one or the other or understanding that I need to be both is freaking me out. Yes there is a husband, but ‘he has so much that he has to worry about already’ so I can’t assume shared responsibility on him.
And all the above is going to be thrown back at me ... because every other women has had to adjust and every other women has come through this journey and every other women seem to manage and are coping so well ... so what’s wrong with me.
I was watching ‘Great Expectations’ quite often on maternity leave and they covered getting back to work ... they mentioned that employers disregard that you’re just going through a life changing ‘thing’ (or phenomenal, depends how you look at it) and just expect that you get the temp to ‘hand over’ and that you should just slot in and get on with it. Not to mention that you have a fear that the temp has made inroads and now must just push off on account of you, and you’re supposed to feel sorry about it – sorry we just don’t have the capacity to care about that too – you’re an ‘alien in New York’
Do I sound anxious – I am. What if I’m not every other women and I don’t have her coping skills, even if I made it in the corporate world and am a success in this career world and I am the ‘bread winner’ to my husband and parents? How do they do it?
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| I think the problem is that working Moms aren't honest which each other. We are always trying to cope and show that we can do it and perhaps feeling a bit guilty about spreading ourselves so thinly between office, partner and fmaily. Its hard but we're tough and somehow we make it through. | ||
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