“Did I ruin my life by having a child?” In mid-December of last year, I was sitting in the backseat of our car around the block from Barney’s Burgers on Solano Avenue, desperately typing any iteration of this sentence into Google that I could while my infant daughter slept in her car seat beside me, and my husband was inside the restaurant spending an exorbitant amount of money on greasy comfort food for us. “Is my life ruined because I had a baby?” “When does having a baby get easier?” “How do I know if I ruined my life if I had a baby?” “Did I make a mistake in having a baby?” “Is my career over because I had a baby?” Like a Magic 8-Ball, I wanted Google to reveal some reassurance to give me a sliver of hope.
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