I love my children but love is not enough. Love doesn't make a good parent. Love doesn't make me engage with them. Love doesn't give me patience.
Sometimes I have seen threads where mothers have said they are worried they are failing their children and posters have said that they are not failing them because they love them. This is wrong, I imagine that every parent no matter how cruel love their children on some level.
I am failing my children, they will not reach their full potential because of my ineffectual parenting skills.
I don't know why I have put this in mental health, I suppose it's that I feel that there must be something wrong with my brain, everyone can do this and I can't.
I love my children but it's not enough. It's nowhere near enough.
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Love isn't enough.
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BonnieBumble · 03/05/2012 09:33
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