Our Family Is Really Struggling, But I Don’t Know How To Tell Anyone “Some days I go to bed early not because I’m tired, but because I can’t stand to be awake.”
So we stay quiet. We listen to people talk instead of talking ourselves, because we don’t know what to say. We might have something to add. But we don’t want to add it.My husband asked me once what kind of help I would want. My mouth opened. It shut. It opened again, and I blurted, “.” The struggle seems so enormous, so all-encompassing, but so mundane all at once, and anyway, like most people who struggle, I feel: who am I to ask for help, anyway? I didn’t just have a baby.
In the end, though, maybe it would help. If we talked about our struggle, we’d feel less isolated. We could say: we’re having a bad time right now in our family. It’s hard for us. Things aren’t going great right now. Fuck you if you think we’re whining. Then maybe someone else would say: we struggle, too. And another person: we struggle. It’s not easy around here. Maybe we could move past the Instagrammed versions of our lives to the real ones.
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