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How to Cope When You Love Your Children But Miss Your Freedom

I love my children but I miss my life before them more than I expected and I feel like a monster for wanting my freedom back sometimes.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Motherhood reveals the painful truth that love and loss of self can coexist, each real, each deserving of acknowledgment.

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