All mothers know this. That the love we have for our child is so intense and all-consuming that it’s spectacular and terrifying in its power. Yet it’s rare we admit that what motherhood gives us, so too can she take away… Depression… A few weeks after my daughter was born I was hit with severe postpartum […]
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Joe Paterno’s death reminds us of most complicated emotion – ambivalence
I recently experienced a death in our family. I’m not ready to write about it because it feels disrespectful to my departed and to my loved ones to talk directly about my ambivalent feelings. Instead, I’ll write around my feelings. I started to think about ambivalence, about loving someone “but” having mixed emotions. Today I […]