Eilan
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Now I feel guilty for making you feel guilty for making me feel guilty. . .quoll said:Oh no, now I feel guilty for making you feel even more guilty as well feeling guilty for starting this thread.
Most of my guilty feelings are parenting-related.
I felt guilty for leaving my oldest child with my in-laws when I went back to work after she was born. I felt like I was imposing on them because they wouldn't hear of talking any money to care for her, and I felt like I was doing my child a disservice by not staying home with her.
Now that I'm home with the kids, I feel guilty about not working, even though I don't have to (or really want to) work.
I feel guilty because I think I treat my second child differently from the other three. My husband says I don't do this, but I think I do.
I feel guilty whenever I get some "mom time."
I occasionally feel guilty about intentionally spacing my two youngest children so closely together, like I robbed my third child of the opportunity to be the "baby."
I could continue, but I think I've made it pretty obvious that I have issues. And I haven't even gotten to the non-parenting stuff yet!
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