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Jennifer L.W. Fink's avatar

THIS caught my attention: "I’ve got plenty more to say about the emotional labor of midlife motherhood (spoiler: at some point, it’s pretty much all emotional labor)" Ah ha! Yes! I have yet to see someone else so perfectly encapsulate it. I was just recently talking to my husband about how my kids don't really *need me for anything anymore -- I mean, now that they're 18, 21, 24, & 27, they can & do handle life logistics all by themselves, quite well. I don't need to dress anyone or bathe anyone or get any to school or to or from and any kind of practices and yet...it doesn't exactly feel like I have free time. (More than before yes. But also, they do need me & I am parenting but in ways that are some much more amorphous that ever before. And harder to count on/plan for! I knew bedtime happened everyday...)

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Emily S's avatar

So beautiful Meagan. Since my knee surgery in early November I was forced to change my workout routines. I am finding a new love for the Y that we belong to and using the good old stationary bike because it helped me heal my knee. I find this challenge exciting as I push myself a little further each time. It's so refreshing to change things up once in a while and if you would have asked me a year ago if I would ever do a stationary bike I would have just laughed.

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