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3 weeks ago |
theeverymom.com | Zara Hanawalt
Every so often, I’ll get a text or DM from a friend (or sometimes, someone I haven’t spoken to in years) with a message asking for my thoughts on being an only child. Often, these messages will say something along the lines of “You’re the only only child I can think of, and I didn’t know who else to ask: What is it really like for you?
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1 month ago |
theeverymom.com | Zara Hanawalt
When my social media feeds started to fill up with videos about “things Type A moms do” vs. “things Type B moms do,” I found myself wondering where I fit in. I even asked my husband if he’d consider me a Type A or a Type B personality. “Neither really,” he said. “Or maybe a little bit of both.” Just as I expected. I don’t quite fit into either personality type, at least not based on the extreme examples of both we often see on social media.
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1 month ago |
sheknows.com | Zara Hanawalt
Three years ago, I found a gorgeous pair of boots and swooned over them for months. My husband encouraged me to buy them, and when they went on sale in April, I finally pulled the trigger. I made a condition with him, though: He had to hold on to them and give them to me as a Mother’s Day gift — that helped me wrap my head around the splurge, and I knew I’d always associate the boots with a special day.
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1 month ago |
theeverymom.com | Zara Hanawalt
There’s this narrative that when you become a parent, you stop enjoying your weekend. On social media, creators post about how there’s no point in asking a parent what they did over the weekend because, for most parents, it’s not a terribly exciting time. There are multiple Reddit threads from parents saying they dread weekends.
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1 month ago |
theeverymom.com | Zara Hanawalt
When I became a mom, I expected my identity to shift. I even knew I may feel like I’d lost my sense of self entirely. So when my children were finally born, I braced myself for that feeling to set in. But as I stepped into motherhood, I quickly realized that the shift in identity wasn’t the thing I’d struggled with the most. Motherhood didn’t feel like it robbed my identity; it added to it in a way that was both destabilizing and fulfilling.
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