Nothing can prepare you for becoming a parent.
All the books and articles seem to be geared towards "ooh, it's so lovely, it's so wonderful, la la la" that it's shocking when reality gets in the way.
There's nothing that tells you that, sure, you've had a terrible day at work and want nothing more than to sit down for 5 minutes with a cup of tea and decompress when you get home but that isn't what's going to happen.
What is going to happen is that you're going to end up getting into a stand up row with your partner because she's tired in a different way and you bought the wrong butter at the supermarket and instead of previously when you'd have laughed it off and it would have been cute neither of you is backing down and now the baby is shrieking because you've been arguing so loudly!! In the end you just give up and don't speak to each other for the rest of the night.
*Not my story by-the-way but a good friends.
All the books and articles seem to be geared towards "ooh, it's so lovely, it's so wonderful, la la la" that it's shocking when reality gets in the way.
There's nothing that tells you that, sure, you've had a terrible day at work and want nothing more than to sit down for 5 minutes with a cup of tea and decompress when you get home but that isn't what's going to happen.
What is going to happen is that you're going to end up getting into a stand up row with your partner because she's tired in a different way and you bought the wrong butter at the supermarket and instead of previously when you'd have laughed it off and it would have been cute neither of you is backing down and now the baby is shrieking because you've been arguing so loudly!! In the end you just give up and don't speak to each other for the rest of the night.
*Not my story by-the-way but a good friends.
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