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When motherhood eclipses other identities

I was accepted to graduate school but got pregnant instead and chose to be a mom and I love my kids but sometimes I feel like I disappeared.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The transformation into parent can be so total that we grieve the person we were before we fully inhabited who we became.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Grief for lost possibility — paths not taken?”

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