Motherhood’s Hidden Cost Of Admission

The emotional load mothers carry is terrifying

image by Alexander Dummer via Unsplash

Now that I am one, I understand better.

I see the picture more clearly. It consists of more than a comprehension of the things that come along with raising a child.

But there is something else.

There’s a certain feeling that is associated with motherhood.

Becoming a mom, for me, has been a petrifying, eye-opening, hair raising experience. My own mother described the feeling that comes along with being a mom as “agony”, and I couldn’t agree more.

Of course being a mother is beautiful, and wonderful and fun and tender and precious and all the things that you hear.

But that feeling of being a mom is terrifying. TERRIFYING.

The movie Aliens vaguely touched on it by turning the bizarreness of a creature growing inside of you into a classic sci-fi horror film.

But it didn’t even begin to break the ice of the real horror of, for me, the underlying feeling of motherhood.

I’ve also heard it be referred to as an “emotional load”.