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When maternal love coexists with escape fantasies

I love my kids but I fantasize about disappearing and starting over somewhere else and then I hate myself for thinking that.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The intensity of caregiving can create natural desires for freedom that feel incompatible with love but may actually preserve it.

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