"Dads are going to get something wrong on Mother's Day. That's just the way it is. Unless they're just, like, this insanely intune human - or a replica of their wife - they're going to do something that isn't the way that she would do it. But that's fine because they're not the same person, and that is what makes the world go round."
"Moms are just so burnt out from making so many decisions. We see the way things are going to happen before they even happen. We're like in perimenopause along with the absolute oh-my-god chaos of May and raising school-aged children. I don't know what I'll be like every morning when I wake up."
"I was so unprepared for how hard being a mom would be. Everyone told me about the excitement and the joy, but I was completely underinformed about the absolute treachery of being a mom to a newborn while recovering from a C-section."
Caitlin Murray, a mother of three and author, discusses the reality of Mother's Day and parental expectations. She explains that fathers will inevitably do things differently than mothers would, which is acceptable because they are different people. Mothers experience significant burnout from making countless daily decisions and managing the chaos of raising school-aged children. Murray reflects on her first Mother's Day in 2014, when she felt disappointed despite receiving flowers and brunch. She was unprepared for the difficulty of early motherhood following a C-section and felt no celebration could adequately acknowledge her sacrifice. The overwhelming joy associated with motherhood doesn't materialize on Mother's Day because it doesn't occur on any single day.
Read at TODAY.com
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