All the child rearing books say that you shouldn't feel guilty about raising your children.
Heh. And in my experience, anything that tells you how you should or shouldn't feel just makes it all worse. Now you can feel guilty about feeling guilty. Joy.
All these feelings and worries make sense to me. You wouldn't feel this way if you didn't care, right? You do care. *And* I don't think you are (or are raising) a useless blob.
Y'know what? I wonder how much of this is related to devaluing motherhood. It's unskilled labor, right? ...therefore it should be easy, right? Fooey on that.
Anyhow, hugs. I hope things look better than this some of the time. :-/
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Date: 2005-04-07 09:45 pm (UTC)Heh. And in my experience, anything that tells you how you should or shouldn't feel just makes it all worse. Now you can feel guilty about feeling guilty. Joy.
All these feelings and worries make sense to me. You wouldn't feel this way if you didn't care, right? You do care. *And* I don't think you are (or are raising) a useless blob.
Y'know what? I wonder how much of this is related to devaluing motherhood. It's unskilled labor, right? ...therefore it should be easy, right? Fooey on that.
Anyhow, hugs. I hope things look better than this some of the time. :-/