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Feelings
Coping with Guilt, Overwhelmed-ness—and Other Completely Normal Workparent Emotions
Sooner or later, you—just like almost every other working mother and father out there—will face serious stresses as you try to combine career and family, and will go through periods of guilt, apprehension, and self-doubt. If you find yourself …
- Drooping at the sight of your seemingly endless to-do list
- Questioning your own choices or competence
- Feeling remorse about having missed that big work meeting or school play
- Hurt and/or angry on the heels of a colleague’s (or your mother-in-law’s, or a neighbor’s) snarky comment about how you’re combining career and kids
- Imagining the potential terrible outcomes of your workparenting (emotionally damaged ...
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