Letters to the Editor
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Mom Reality, what the baby books don't tell you
After you have the baby, you will not be who you are. You will be a mom. This is the trajectory Mom is great, you get to gain weight, you get to wear frumpy clothes, enjoy yourself and tell everyone to go eff themselves. After a few years you will get tired of it, or your husband will get tired of it , you will have a mid life crisis. You will get a lover, start buying sexy underwear, lose weight and look really hot. That's your forties, you will be at the horniest ever.
You will either get divorced or stay married, more likely divorced. You will then have to date again, so you have to start marketing yourself again. You will enjoy it for a while, but you will find out, that men are just the same. You will kick yourself for leaving the first husband since you were so comfortable being a mom. You will pine for your mom days with bursting boobs, with puky kids, with carpools and temper tantrums.
In the end, in your late 50's and 60's, you will be a mom again. Cooking for the holidays, waiting for phone calls, waiting for them to come. You will worry all the time and become a real pain, but they will come back home broke and expect to live home and make you drop your life. Your kids will not just call you mom, now you will be "oh, mom" or "OH MOM!!!!" or "Ohhh mom?"
The new husband will be jealous of your mom ways, and you will think, damn, let me be a mom.