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Parenting is easy

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Seethelite · 30/06/2023 00:57

Being a parent is hard. We know. Being a mum is super hard, we know.

Being a father is easy. All you have to do is bring home a paycheck, life is sorted.
Earn more money, but be home early.
Be emotional, but don't let it show.
Look after the kids, take them out, but don't mind the stares as to why you are alone with your daughter, must be a creep.
You look sad, what a loser. She looks sad, what did you do to her?
Look at the page you are on, "Mums net" apparently for parents.
If you have a mediocre husband, have a talk with them, maybe they are one nag away from hang from a bridge.

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abmac95 · 30/06/2023 01:01

Are you okay?

I hear you and completly agree.

Mumtothreegirlies · 30/06/2023 01:01

Except plenty of women are forced into work After giving birth and the vast majority do most of the childcare and housework too and pay half the bills. Some women end up alone and have all of that to do whilst paying all of the bills and the father gets to walk off into the sunset and will often start a whole new family with someone else reducing the financial help to the family they left behind.

WandaWonder · 30/06/2023 01:05

What are we missing?

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johnd2 · 30/06/2023 03:08

Sorry to hear you are struggling, please take care of yourself OP!

Igmum · 30/06/2023 04:23

Are you ok? I hope you have some support in real life

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LivMumsnet · 30/06/2023 10:37

Hello OP, we are really sorry to hear you are feeling this way.

We hope you don't mind, but when these threads are flagged up to us we usually add a link to our Mental Health resources.

You can also go to the Samaritans website, or email them on [email protected]

Support from other Mumsnetters is great and we really hope you will be able to take some comfort from your fellow posters, but as other MNers will tell you, it's really a good idea to seek RL help and support as well.

We also like to remind everyone that, although we're awed daily by the astonishing support our members give each other through life's trickier twists and turns, we'd always caution anyone never to give more of themselves to another poster, emotionally or financially, than they can afford to spare.

Take care, OP.

Lost0013 · 30/06/2023 13:20

Are you ok OP. We're here if you need to talk.

TinyTeacher · 30/06/2023 14:12

Sounds like you're having a rough time, OP.

How you are feeling is not typical. Please seek some in real life, go and see your GP or just talk to a friend. You don't have to feel like this.

BallantyneValentine · 30/06/2023 14:22

If you are feeling completely drained and at the end of your tether which it sounds like you are then you can make changes.

Take it absolutely as read that the people around you are incapable of changing just for you but know confidently that you can change just for you if you choose to. You can change your beliefs, you can change your circle, you can change aspects of your personality.

You are responsible for yourself and you are responsible for your child (ren) and if you have a “emotionally/psychologically healthy” relationship with your partner then perhaps you have some but much less responsibility for them too.

You are not responsible for anyone else in this world. The rest are choices we make. There can be a lot of grief in realising that some relationships are not healthy for us and we need to let them go.

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