With the Mother's Day weekend coming up and all the commercial promotions starting off early, I was thinking on a bit of a tangent... or maybe not as tangential as I think. It struck me how tomes are being written about the greatness of being a mother and how it completes a woman's life - and yes, some people do stop and mention the dads too. But little gets written or maybe discussed about how the relationship between two 'individual' people in a marriage evolves post parenthood. Everyone I think goes through the older-generations' promotion of parenthood about how it 'evolves' the relationship between them and that parenthood makes you closer than before to your partner. Naturally becoming attuned to the dynamics of families - vs just couples - I started closely observing what I thought were social patterns which maybe I could use someday to define the kind of roles and relationships I wanted to emulate in my life. I saw parents around me who were ...
In the depths of winter... I discovered in me incredible summers!