As requested, a thread for general snarking that may not need its own post.
I’d feel like shit if I saw my mom say “I’m having so much fun being child free”. Like my mom would NEVER feel that way, even in my 30’s she still misses spending as much time with me as she did when I still lived at home. Sarah will make all these posts about spending time with your kids while you can, or about how L is growing up so fast and she doesn’t know where the time went and she’ll have some insane toilet poetry when M goes off to university but she CHOOSES to be away from them anyways. She has missed over half of L’s life so far by dropping her off at NK’s every day, by saying yes to every single thing that comes her way, it’s insane yet she’ll still cry to get sympathy about how life moves so fast and spend time with your kids while you can 🙄
And she only has the big kids 50% of the time🙈🙈🙈🙈 and like you said Lemon is never home. What is she needing a break from!!! And yes it does feel like shit. I had a an actually professional mother who chose her career over family, took luxury vacations without us and spent the rest of her time with her husband. We were constantly shuttled between my grandparents, our father and school with brief stops at “home”. Where we longed to be but ended up feeling empty, shallow and needing when we were there ☹️ it was sad. We all wanted our mother’s attention very very deeply but it was hard to figure that out in real time when you don’t know any different. I’m in my late 40’s and I am still not quite right🙃 totally weird relationships with my “mother”.
Thank you, I made a strong effort to not continue the cycle of neglect and gave my kids the most traditional magical upbringing a lonely little me could hope for. I had great friends with great parents and learned would childhood should look like.
I’m so sorry you went through that as a kid :( I can only imagine how hard that must’ve been to deal with. I can imagine that’s how it feels for Sarah’s kids, wanting attention and not knowing how to receive it unless they want to be on camera.