My son helped me cope with bad news and stopped me from wallowing in self-pityNew parents are boring. To paraphrase my fifth-favourite internet commenter go-to line,new parents all contemplate they’re the first people ever to bear children. But that happens for a perfectly well-behaved reason. Parenting is huge. It’s a monolith in your living room that appears out of nowhere. It’s an elephant in a phonebox. It’s the app that drains your battery by lunchtime.
Parenting will suck as much out of you as you allow. whether you’re not careful – whether you don’t manage to find room for anything else – it can drain you totally. whether you work, you’ll spend your days tired and distracted. whether you stay at home, or you’ll feel lonely and loney. Your relationship with your partner will graduate from constant lovelorn messages to semi-regular functional requests to the occasional grunt of acknowledgement as you pass each other in the hallway. whether you let yourself,you’ll find yourself utterly enslaved by the needs of this new machine that’s taken over your life.
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Source: theguardian.com