'Making time for yourself, particularly in a moment of crisis, is vital and necessary for every mother.'
an entire ocean away. I felt a lot of internalized pressure to be selfless or maternal while making this decision, yet it never seemed all that difficult. It was a place I’d always wanted to work, why should a new baby stand in the way?
Of course, I never said that out loud. After all, that’s not how mothers, especially new ones, are expected to think. Nor did I tell anyone. If friends and family asked if it was killing me to be away from my baby, I would nod and agree, when what I really wanted to say was that it was helping me find my way back to myself.
We still see women like Teigen and Bell as aberrations — and they face constant backlash for it. Just like author Ayelet Waldman did in 2005 when, in daring to vocalize her desire to create autonomy from her children in a, she admitted that she loved her husband more than she loved her kids. “If I were to lose one of my children, God forbid, even if I lost all my children, God forbid, I would still have him, my husband,” she wrote.
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