Women face a lot of situations that make them conflicted in their lives. First, they want to know who will be their best friend, and when they go to college they want to know which to choose or what career is best for them. Yet, despite all these conflicting situations, the author states that the worst is motherhood. She says that she finds herself exhausted at the end of the day while realizing that her children needs one more sip of water and an extra kiss before she puts them to bed and when they are in bed wishing that they were still with her because she has guilt from not enjoying the moment. Many mothers find that while it seems slow, time seems to go by fast and before one knows it, the children are all grown up. She states that when she was with her first child, she used to state that as they grew older they would need her less but that didn’t turn out to be the case because they needed her differently than she expected. And these were what the tug and pull in motherhood is all about.

Key Takeaways:

• Your children will always need you as much as they do when they are infants, but their needs change.
• Working moms always feel guilty about those times when they cannot be with their children.
• In addition to feeling the tug and pull from your kids, you will also get it from your husband.

“Most who aren’t mothers see us keeping it together, or maybe doing a bang up job of raising a tribe, but what they don’t see is this constant conflict we deal with every freaking day.”

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