Earthling post!

[thefourthvine]

I still haven't figured out exactly how to transfer the earthling filter over here. So, in the meantime: there's a new earthling post here!

(And, just in case anyone is new here: the earthling filter is for posts about my kid. It is opt-in and open to all. Just let me know you want to be on it, or take the poll here.)

Comments

[norah]

I lurve you so much.

That post made me jealous, actually - I wish that I had that sort of naturally driven need for closeness. You seem to be having some part of the experience of motherhood that I am just missing somehow. *all green and stuff*

IN OTHER NEWS HOW THE FUCK IS HE ONE ALREADY.

[thefourthvine]

The weird part is, you know I don't have that drive to be close with people. I don't. (Although, oddly, I did during pregnancy. But it went away for other people and stayed for the earthling.) But the earthling is different. So for me, motherhood has been this very strange experience of wanting, even needing, to be close someone most of the time.

I think in your case, though, you were fucked over by hormones and depression - this is hard enough, but with that, I just don't know how you could have experience the first year as anything but head-down survival.

AND I DON'T KNOW. I THINK SOMETHING HAPPENED TO THE TIME.