My sister and I both have demanding jobs and young kids, and we've been trying to help each other out with childcare and logistics, but it's turned into this complicated web of favors and guilt where we're both exhausted and starting to feel like we're failing each other. We want to support each other but the constant crisis management is straining our relationship.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are discovering that mutual aid under impossible structural pressure can generate its own relational costs.
“Where Are You with Work and parenting — the structural impossibility?”
Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.