Years ago, before I?d had kids, I had dinner with a girlfriend who told me she?d started seeing a therapist.
I was surprised. Outwardly, her life seemed perfect. She had a loving stable marriage, a thriving career and two happy, healthy young children. What was driving her to spend fifty minutes on the counselling couch each week for fee of $130 a session"
?My kids,? she said. ?They?re driving me nuts. Sometimes, when I?m with them all day, I don?t even recognize myself. I have to lock myself in the bathroom to avoid screaming at them and completely losing control.?
I remember marvelling at this disclosure and thinking how utterly at odds it was with the version of my girlfriend I saw both in person and on social media.
This, obviously, was before I had children myself.
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