<h2>The Facebook post reads: </h2><p>”☝️ everyone thinks being a stay at home mom full time is easy.</p><p>— that we are lucky to be able to not have to work.<br>— that we are lazy.<br>— that it’s not “real” work so we have nothing to complain about.</p><p>👉 but the truth is… it’s lonely and overwhelming</p><p>You can’t do anything by yourself; go to the bathroom, enjoy a cup of coffee, read, you can’t even scrub the poop out of pants for the 3rd time in a day without someone crying or screaming at your leg.</p><p>You don’t get breaks unless they are sleeping; which even then you use that time to clean up.</p><p><div style=”text-align:center;” id=”aslot-pagebreak”></div>
<div class=”htl-ad” data-unit=”pagebreak” data-sizes=”0x0:300×250,300×50,320×240,320×50, 375×250|640×0:300×250,336×280,640×480|980×0:300×250,336×280,640×480,728×90″ data-prebid=”0x0:320x50_300x250|640×0:300x250_336x280|980×0:300x250_336x280_728x90″></div></p><p>You struggle to come up with ways to entertain someone for literally 12 hours a day every day.</p><p><strong>You wear the same clothes that smell like sweat and tears for days at a time because it’s already stained and no use in ruining more clothes.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><div class=”rm-shortcode” data-rm-shortcode-id=”7c5d987ec7a5b57546e38fd8ba55c499″><div class=”fb-post” data-href=”https://www.facebook.com/100011521935343/posts/957875927939796/?d=n”></div></div><p><br></p><p>You forget what it means or feels like to be an individual; because your entire existence now revolves around that child.</p><p>You look at working moms and get jealous because you wish you could have an excuse to have an adult conversation without being interrupted.</p><p>You lock yourself in the bathroom and scream into a towel while crying because you need a second to breathe; all while a child is banging on the door to get in.</p><p>☝️ let that sink in, most of us don’t even have the luxury to cry and be frustrated in peace and when we do break down people question it; “like, what do you have to cry about you get to sit home all day.”</p><p><strong>I was one of those people who judged SAHMs. But I get it now. The people who said they’d be there to help have all but disappeared, and you’re left with this overwhelming sense of failure.</strong></p><p>My house isn’t clean, I’m not clean, the dishes aren’t done, I have screamed already today, I have cried, and I have felt so guilty that my child was here to witness it.</p><p>But I am alone…. and I am lonely</p><p><div class=”htl-ad” data-unit=”infeed” data-sizes=”0x0:300×250,320×240|640×0:300×250,336×280,640×480|980×0:300×250,336×280,640×480,728×90″ data-prebid=”0x0:320x50_300x250|640×0:300x250_336x280|980×0:300x250_336x280_728x90″></div></p><p>👉👉 check in on your SAHM friends….we are NOT okay.”</p><p>Thank you mama for your honesty, and let’s all check on our friends today. </p>
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