Some women feel that the role of mother and wife swallow them up and they lose something of themselves. Other women take great joy in those roles and feel their lives are expanded and enhanced by those roles. Which are you?
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I think I'm a little bit of both. I think that I would feel swallowed by society's perception of what a wife and mother should be, and that I would lose something of myself were I forced into society's traditional role's of wife and mother. However, in MY life, my role as wife and mother is enriching. Although, I think you do give up a bit of yourself (it is just what you do for the people you love), but when I do it, I do it willingly, and what I get out of return is more than what I give. If that makes sense.
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I think I am the later one, because I enjoy being with my family and take care of them. However, I do balance my work life with my family life. It's a matter of how each individual deal with it.
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When I was married to my ex-husband I felt like I had given everything up and was forgotten while he reaped all the rewards. But that was because he used it as an excuse to control everything while doing nothing. With Jay motherhood and being a wife was nothing like that. I felt that expanded and enhanced life as soon as he asked me if I was going to give him a girl or a boy. Then again with Jay I had a loving and supportive partner who made it his duty to be just as involved in rearing our children as I was. I think that's what made all the diffrence in the world.
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I'm both. I have days where being a mother is the best thing I could have done with my life, and I enjoy every annoying secod of it, and I have days where being a single parents is the last thing I want, and I don't know how I'm going to continue to d this alone, but for the most part, I'm happy about it, it's just the days where my son doesn't stop or even slow down.
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No job or title would ever swallow me because first of all I feel I am ME. Whether it be me the wife or me the working gal, it's always me. The me that is wife is wholely a full partner and never separate from him.It gives me my greatest joy. We are one together but I still have a sense of me and he feels it too. When I am in work mode, I'm still fully wife, fully worker, but fully me. I can't divide myself. I am all these things. I don't have roles, I can only be one thing and that's me.
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I'm not a mother nor a wife...but I think it depends on their role within their marriage and in their family.
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