As a mother, I'm constantly feeling like a failure.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.
Every single second of every single day... I don't know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I'm always plagued with, 'Did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction?'
One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.
I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do their job. Some people have more of a knack for it than others do, but almost all of it falls to, 'My mother's suffocating me.' Whatever.
But I still always felt the absence of a mother.
I don't have the hard everyday life that so many working mothers face.
I'm a mother. Mothers multi-task.
I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.
I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.
Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.