35 going on 13
I saw a post today where this woman said that your kids are not babies anymore so you’re at a stage where you’re discovering yourself and what makes you happy again and honestly, I just started bawling my eyes out because it’s true. For the most of my adult life, I’ve put my identity in being a mom, a single mom, a divorced mom, a single woman, trying to find a Husband, for whatever reason all those things were supposed to give me some type of worth and value to the world, as if the only thing I ever had to say was about being single and being a mom. That may have been because I got divorced so young, I mean I was 23 years old. Most people are barely graduating college and dating to find their person and I had gone and had kids and signing off my life in divorce paperwork. In a lot of ways that handicapped me from actually living life and discovering do I even like the life that I’m living or could it be better? I’ll be the first to say that I put a lot of pressure on myself and I ge