Only mother can understand each other.
Being a mom is not easy. I always said that because it's true. Being a mom is not all about being a mom itself because there's a lot of stories behind every mom that we see or met.
Some mothers gave up thier career just to be a stay at home. Some mothers don't have a choice but to work and sacrifice the time with thier children because they need to provide. Some other mothers are earnings in the comfort of thier home but they are really struggling for the time management because being a mom is not easy , what more if you're hustling.
As I am scrolling my newsfeed earlier, I saw my friend posting something. We gave birth almost in the same year and I can say that we always talk about motherhood because we are both first time mom.
Here's her post.
Minsan okay naman ang lahat. Feelings mo lang yun hindi.
Sometimes everything seems fine except on our feelings.
I know there something about this post that's why I messaged her saying why?
Then she replied me with.
Wala lang , dami lang iniisip. Minsan dumadating sa point na matutulala ka nalang. I feel so bad about myself. Diko din maintindihan yung sarili ko minsan.
Nothing, I just overthink much. Sometimes it's comes to a point that I find myself stunned on the absence. I feel so bad about myself. Sometimes I can't understand myself.
I told her that her feeling is so natural for a stay at home mom like us and I understand her. No one will understand a feeling of a mom except for a mom like us too.
Then I asked her a question because she didn't share to me the problem but I think I know what's the reason of the problem. I asked her this.
Do you feel you're like in prison on the four corners of your house? And browsing social media accounts makes you feel sad too right?
Then she answered me with this.
Yes , I feel like I have no freedom. That my life is only rotating everyday in our house. I can't help my husband financially. I don't have my own money. I want to buy something for myself but I don't want to use the money that my husband gave me because it's more my son.
Then I told her that I'm right. I knew it because most of the stay at home mom feel the same as her.
This is not the first time that I had a conversation with my co mom who are experiencing something like this. For me sharing your frustrations to other mother's can help you cope up even a little because that's actually what I'm doing. Because of that I also offered a hand to those mom who wants a people who can understand and will listen to thier frustration in life and also encourage them to be happy and motivated.
When you choose to be stay at home mom maybe you will be sacrificing something but you know we are modern now and technically can help us to do what we want or to achieved. There's a lot of opportunities online and what we need to do is to try and learn. Explore things even if it's hard at first.
As for me , I advised her to start an online business because I saw her baking some cakes with her loveones. A couple of months ago I also introduce her to noise.cash and read but I don't know why she didn't continue it.
we all go through that stage indeed... i also had that feeling, it's part of post partum... the good thing about this is that we have all the opportunity to witness our children's milestones. and this is just a season, soon, she will just miss these moments..