Time in "survival mode"...and it's not madness, it's the body saying ENOUGH is ENOUGH because you've been in "survive" mode for a while.
Does it ring a bell? Palpitations, insomnia, the urge to llorar...es in what way can you understand, face and transform that feeling.
Have you been made to feel less by being a housewife?
Look, no. It's really unacceptable. Especially if your self-esteem is affected. It is essential to understand that the work of running a home is serious, complex and requires many skills. Especially when you have to alter it with work outside the home.
The truth is that no woman should feel less for exercising that role, not even for the fact that it is unpaid.
The harshest and most reckless comments I've received from other women for deciding to be a housewife and work virtually too, with comments like: "It's just that they don't keep me like you" and similar things 😶. When he has said things like that to me I say: Stop the world I want to get off.
From a very young age I have been a provider for my children and I have helped my husband with my finances.
As I got older, things got better for me.
I still feel lucky for wanting to practice my profession and still be 100% dedicated to my home. It is confusing because of how a woman who is a housewife, who embraces her home, and makes a balance in personal development and growth and my family is seen in society.
Hugs to all the women who can do what they do with what they have. Definitely being a housewife is not being less. It is a constant work, deeply human, and loaded with a lot of meaning.
I represent what it means to dignify many women who, like me, do it with love, dedication and purpose. I say this, because in addition to being a professional woman, as a housewife I also learned to be a teacher, transport, psychologist and I stop talking about my children, whom I sign as doctors, engineers and dentists, if I had to do it again I would do it again, now I am very proud of my grandchildren and myself.
This self-love is fundamental to carry on my family, my home. Being a housewife is an admirable, dedicated and deeply demanding job.
The women who have been in both positions know that it is easier to go out to work on the street than to work on building a home.
Imagine that you pay, as I have paid a domestic for simple tasks and without major commitments, such as cleaning, washing, now add the mental burden of having everything in order, keeping the accounts, school assignments, medical, all meals, there is no salary that pays the emotional management that a housewife does, she only receives the.pleasure of duty done and the satisfaction of a functional home.
That's why self-care is essential, to have self-esteem and to give ourselves that validation.
Never allow your self-esteem to diminish in the face of the senseless criticism that is often made to housewives. My beloved parents my best example of family and home sweet home.
With love,
Janitze 🦋
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