Samantha Darby poses an important question this week: Have we forgotten who we were before we had kids? She writes, “Having a baby fundamentally changes a person. Everything around you is suddenly different. Everything looks different, feels different. For a while, there's a very specific, craggly line separating your life — the Before and the After. No matter how thrilled or anxious you were about becoming a mom, no matter how planned or unplanned your child was, you're bound to feel like a new person. But do we really lose ourselves? Have we forgotten who we were before kids?”

Read it… and maybe weep.

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