Category: failure to launch
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Knife’s Edge of Midlife Motherhood — Part 2: The Big Test
After my last Mother’s Day “epiphany” post, it probably seemed like I kinda had things figured out. 😂😉 So, of course, you know what happened next… A few days after Mother’s Day, said living-at-home daughter had a second job, and, combined with the days she helps out her former boss at a small lunch cafe,…
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The Knife’s Edge of Midlife Motherhood
Boomerang kids… Sandwich generation… Failure to launch… Midlife crisis…. On Mother’s Day 2023 — a Mother’s Day in my midlife — I feel many disparate (conflicting?) emotions. Though I have a “kid” (young adult) living with me, I was not at home to receive (possibly burnt) breakfast in bed. Instead, I spent the night at…
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