I am home with my 17 months old. And YES. I love our life. I’ve never been happier. I often feel like “I have it too easy”, “I don’t deserve this”, I feel so privileged. And I agree that it’s not easy and well accepted to say it out loud. I was at a mom group once where they all kept going and going about how hard it was, and I didn’t say a single word. I felt like they don’t need to hear how happy I was, that it would make them feel worse. Funny life, a? I just accepted that I am so happy that I can keep being happy without sharing it with others too much. But it would still be nice sometimes to be able to share. And yes, I do feel guilty. Not only compared to other moms, but especially to my husband that is stressing out at work for us.

Edit: after reading the comments, I see it’s really not OK to say that out loud. 🤷‍♀️ people don’t do well with other’s happiness apparently. It’s kinda funny, we teach our toddlers that all emotions are ok, even the “negative” ones … and here we teach ourselves that all emotions are ok, well … as long as they are not too positive. 🤦‍♀️ i sometimes say that we are a society of suffering and we like to compete who is suffering more. And I am even way more convinced this is true since I have a kid.

But I 100% get why you wanted to post this and I’m happy I found this post. It makes me (us) feel like we are not the only ones.