They told you motherhood would complete you. It did. It completed the silence. You love them completely and you're drowning in their needs. Both are true. But culture only accepts one truth at a time. The motherhood clause doesn't expire when they grow up. It's permanent.

This is exhausting. You're not imagining it.

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If it sounds familiar, it is. That's the point.
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