come apart

[emllewellyn]

Even though I have some days yet (38, if you wanted to count), I've learned today what it means to feel like the mediocre housewife. I've learned how/why women feel bad about themselves and how small things (or, in this case, large things on top of small things) can and do make women feel like they're doing a poor job of being wifely.

I managed to

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Don't worry, Big Sister

[jitterbugwaltz]

" I'm making myself feel this way, ultimately, and I know that. But I thought I'd be able to do all of this without him, and clearly I can't. Clearly I'm not nearly as independent and self-sufficient as I have thought or pretended to be