I feel intensely guilty for working... You have to be able to provide for your kids. But I feel like it's a weird modern phenomenon that you always feel guilty for it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You can still love your job and feel guilty. You can still love your child and feel guilty. There's a lot of grey in that. It's about being conscious when you are spending time with your kids, being with them in the moment.
When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.
I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.
I don't work all the time. That's why I waited to have children until I was ready for that. I try to organise my time according to them because they need me. I don't want to put my work first anymore because it's not as important as my children.
Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me.
I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.
It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
When I turn down work, I feel guilty, I feel terrible; I don't know where the next job is going to come from.
I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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