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Originally Posted by maleficent
I also think that staying home has changed my sister. We have never been close, but her being mommy has taken her identity, life for her is all about shuttling the kids to play groups, or after school activities, or class trips. She never does anything for her. Her friends are all also mommies, if she spends time with non-mommies she has absolutely nothing to say, I don't think she's read a book in years, I know she hasn't read a newspaper, she used to be pretty intelligent, and now she's not.
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I have two cousins who both have children.
One this has happened to, one it has not. It's like they become mommy robots, unable to feel anything for themselves. Or is it from sheer exhaustion? My mother, who stayed home with us until i was 13 . . . always kept her friends and interests my whole childhood, she taught us how to entertain ourselves for the evenings, which was healthy for my sister and i. She was a mom but she had her own life.
Is it personality i wonder? Or the culture of the community of moms they are friends with?