Mentally Exhausted Mom Quotes

Becca felt more like a parent than an older sister. She was the one who cared for the children when their mother was working. Whenever their mom was at home, she was in a pissy mood. If by some rare occasion Amanda wasn't moody, she was mentally and emotionally exhausted. Becca empathized with her mother, but she also wished that empathy was reciprocated. Amanda was so consumed in her own self-pity that she failed to recognize how her children felt.

I was first introduced to Clint’s writing in his 2014 New York Times essay: “Getting Up in the Night Is Your Wife’s Job.” Briefly, in this essay, Clint and his wife Mel are new parents, both working, exhausted and juggling the new adjustments of being parents of an infant. In a conversation between Clint and his mother, when Clint shared that he was waking up in the middle of the night to care for their infant son, his mother imposed judgment on Mel. She said that getting up in the night was his wife’s job. And initially, Clint took in his mom’s belief for a moment. Then he paused, reflected, and shared with incredible vulnerability: He gets up in the middle of the night to care for his child in reaction to the pain and abandonment he felt in childhood from his father. For Clint, getting up in the middle of the night to care for his child was an act of love, and healing, embracing what it meant for him to be a father and supportive husband. I observed, caring for his son was a drive to heal from his father’s actions and inactions.