Ok I have one. I'm sensitive about staying at home. I don't dwell on it, but when I am around working moms I try not to automatically assume that they assume I had no career path or ambition to do something other than stay at home with kids ( please don't take this personally I am not saying that SAHMs don't do VERY hard and draining work.) I feel incomplete without my career and it makes me sad.
I'm jealous that you feel this way. I don't miss my former career at all. I don't miss working in art and I don't miss working in fashion. It makes me feel lazy and uninspired around women with successful careers.
I'm jealous you don't feel this way! I wish I didn't.
I think a lot of it is coupled with being so tied to my H's job and sacrificing so much of my life until he retires. I feel like I'm always waiting to live and I HATE it. I think about the day he turns in his shield and gun and I swear I start tearing up. I can't wait ( I know you understand what I'm feeling here).
I'm jealous that you feel this way. I don't miss my former career at all. I don't miss working in art and I don't miss working in fashion. It makes me feel lazy and uninspired around women with successful careers.
I'm jealous you don't feel this way! I wish I didn't.
I think a lot of it is coupled with being so tied to my H's job and sacrificing so much of my life until he retires. I feel like I'm always waiting to live and I HATE it. I think about the day he turns in his shield and fun and I swear I start tearing up. I can't wait ( I know you understand what I'm feeling here).
I feel one hundred percent exactly the way you feel. Completely.
creamsiclechica we are strong women and one day we are going to be rewarded with what we are waiting for and what we have sacrificed. And it will be awesome.
Working people relax a little at work! Don't feel guilty about. SAH and needed a little down time. Please don't.
for real. I used to have a 90 minute planning period plus a 30 minute lunch every day. I absolutely used some of that as downtime! Plus an hour in the car with 100% peace and quiet. You don't get those things as a SAHM unless you carve out time somewhere.
I feel most sensitive about my abilities at work. I feel like I'm not smart enough, not hard working enough, not personable enough with the clients, not enough of a hardass with other counsel, not capable, sloppy and lazy. I feel like my physical appearance works against me and I don't really have anything else to offer but the way I work and that I'm not good enough.
I'm sensitive about a lot of things. My looks, lack of career, parenting style... I wish I would have had more ambition when I was younger, beyond being a wife and mother. There are so many successful women on here, and among my friends from HS, and I'm just here, starting over, and living with my dad. I feel like I'm finally progressing, but I still feel like I'm judged by a lot of people. I care way too much about what other people think of me.