also... from EMMASTHING

also... from EMMASTHING

Motherhood

Same Team Mentality.

Or how to not take out misplaced rage on your spouse in the throes of parenthood.

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Emma Golden Miller
May 13, 2026
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New or soon-to-be parents beware: it’s really fucking easy to take everything out on your partner. Like, really easy. Too easy. Stupid easy. And if you don’t catch it early, it will snowball and no one likes snow inside the house.

While in my two weeks of postpartum bliss where I was feeling insanely good and normal and happy (and many of you were watching this delusional version of me like…

Bitches.), I forgot all about the rage. The sleep deprived, overwhelmed, anxious, stressed out rage that inevitably comes with newborn life. I truly thought I had escaped it this time. That we were immediately out of the woods (the woods being my hairy under region). What a dummy. Did I really think that I, queen of anxiety and feeling every emotion, was really going to bypass

THE RAGE?

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