Yes! I started writing a thing about the burden experienced by kids who know they are their mother's full-time job and raison d'etre. You can't just go home and go to your room and do your own thing when she's not seen anyone all day and been home waiting for you. https://twitter.com/SeidorfJ/status/938003128405954562 …
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Strange relationship to a mother if one feels it is a burden, actually, strange that a mother would make their kids feel like that. Is it common?
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Replying to @zibeeb @HPluckrose
I and all my friends and almost all acquaintances grew up with stay-at-home moms and I never heard of that phenomenon.
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Replying to @Rongwrong_ @zibeeb
But did you mother have an outside life or was she expected to be at home and focused on you 24/7? Some women are naturally fulfilled by domestic stuff and the company of children but most of us need more.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @zibeeb
She had a rich social life with her neighbors/friends. She's still in touch with one of her old friends today, decades after everyone moved away.
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Well, there you go then. She was presumably fulfilled by this. I'm not. Not one of my neighbours and real-life friends share my interests. For that I need to get involved with academia and politics.
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