I Miss My Old Life When I Hate Motherhood

Sarah Cottrell
3 min readSep 10, 2020

It isn’t enough to say that motherhood is the hardest job on the planet. Those words do not fully convey the heavyweight of responsibility that comes with raising a child. A more accurate way to phrase this experience would be closer to motherhood is demanding in a physical, financial, mental, and emotional way that might destroy you. Still, you’ll do it with love anyway because you cannot imagine any other life even if motherhood steals every last ounce of your identity and sanity.

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Sarah Cottrell

Writer + Editor | Slow Living + Science Nerd | Rep’d by Folio Lit | Follow my stories here: https://sarahcottrell.medium.com/membership