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Why do women feel so angry? Discuss.

 

So here goes.  I’ve been meaning to start writing a blog for about a year and a half, and a newspaper article I glimpsed in a coffee shop a week of so ago has provided me with exactly the material to open the flood gates of my creative juices.

 

To those of you who don’t read the Daily Mail (and I have to confess that usually, I do not), the article was written by Elizabeth Stewart.  She is a very busy mother, happily married with a high flying job in advertising.  However, she is angry.  For, despite her very demanding career, she is the one mopping up her 3 year old’s sick at 2 o’clock in the morning, remembering to defrost the mince for tomorrow’s spag bog, and managing to squeeze in a conference call during her bikini wax.  

 

Her main issue is that “I never have a moment that’s just mine.  Someone always wants a piece of me.”  God, doesn’t that sound familiar?

 

Now, despite the lack of high-flying career, I completely sympathise with Elizabeth’s gripes.  I am in an extremely fortunate situation whereby my husband works from home and is THE most amazingly hands-on dad I have ever met.  Yet, at times, I still find myself almost point-scoring (mostly in my head, I hasten to add) about who’s done the most crappy jobs, usually to conclude that it is, indeed, Saint Susie the Martyr.  The irony is that the whole point-scoring exercise is, in fact, completely pointLESS.

 

For indeed, Elizabeth wonders “What must it be like to be a man and have nothing to think about but the task in hand?”  The mental whirlwind of moans, ‘to-do’ lists and general resentment that goes on inside our heads serves no purpose and achieves nothing.  Well, it achieves nothing constructive.  It does give us the look of a bitter old shrew and sweep away all positive, helpful thoughts that might otherwise occupy our minds.

 

And that is what this blog is going to be all about.   It may include a whinge or two, or an observation of others’ moans and gripes.  But, my aim is to be helpful, both to myself and to any other mothers out there who need a bit of inspiration.   

 

So, if anyone reading this blog comes to the end of an entry and can’t find anything positive – please feel free to let me know!

 

 

Susie

 

 

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