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Frances Robinson's avatar

It is so brave of you to write this, and SO relatable. I felt exactly the same, this absolute blazing white hot rage boiling up within me. It does get better!!! Is all I can say! Possibly because of some long tail of hormones wearing off, possibly because they just get better at doing stuff for themselves. But thank you for sharing, it's like you discover a whole new range of emotions when you have children, and this one is... Horrible 😭

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Rebecca Holman's avatar

Thank you - I have genuinely shocked myself over the last year or so at how furious I feel so much of the time - so glad to hear it gets better! x

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Lynds Boyd's avatar

Thanks for this. I am feeling the rage guilt on the daily and am massively struggling with the fact that my rage only makes my kids ignore me or exacerbates their bad behaviour. Nice to feel I’m not alone in this.

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Rebecca Holman's avatar

Yeah - there's nothing quite as undignified as me totally losing my mind, only for everyone to totally ignore me/carry on as normal!

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Sam Burgess's avatar

Losing sleep because of Severance is highly relatable. The amount of tv shows I’ve stayed up and watched and thought to myself the very next morning through bleary eyes — why didn’t I go to bed!???

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Rebecca Holman's avatar

I know 9.30PM is a sensible bedtime for someone who frequently gets woken up at 5AM, and yet...

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Sam Burgess's avatar

Yep! My Oura ring tells me it’s time to think about winding down for bed... at 8PM. 😬 Before baby, it was more like 9:30/10PM

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