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Mother Wounds, And The (Generational) Healing Properties Of Beauty Sleep
If most of us are honest, the first person who groomed us to be unpaid firefighters for the family were our mothers.
I believe many ladies have an issue with rest and relaxation (myself included) due to norms in many cultures where the women are notorious for skipping out on rest, naps, and moments of relaxation to not only take care of the home but work long hours to provide for it as well; essentially performing the traditional duties of both man and woman. This is because many bloodlines are filled with overworked women and useless men. These men may be called husband, but the only title they successfully live up to is Sperm Donor.
I should add that so many women also feel it is their responsibility to help out other erratic, stressed-out wives and mothers by becoming surrogate husbands and fathers to their friends, sisters, mothers, aunts, coworkers and neighbors. Basically, the average woman wakes up ready to take on the world. Literally.
Sure, we can point fingers at the men for not doing much. But the unspoken truth is that a lot of women want to keep useless, broke, underperforming and underachieving men around. They are control freaks, and they prefer to singlehandedly do all of the work involved in raising and maintaining a family and household, and of course…
