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I almost choked reading this. My SILs live on a quiet, beautiful, stress-free Greek island, are SAHMs, with their MILs and mom's giving huge supports for them to raise their kids.
Every time I go visit, all I hear from them are "I'm so tired". It kills me. They have been pampered and taken care of from cradle to grave (it's the Greek way, we'll kind of do the same for our kids, including the tradition of buying them a house and sparing no expense on education! That's the good thing about the Greek way!). And they still complain!!!
I tell them, you need to come to the US and have no support and THEN raise your kids. I am lucky my sibs and stepdad are really close by for support. But when we lived in DC, we had zero support. We waited to adopt because we wanted to have a big support system and be surrounded by loving aunts and uncles and cousins. So the second we moved back to MA, we had the homestudy done and started the process.
I don't hear any of my sibs, who all work wicked hard, complaining about "being tired" and they all have kids except my sis who is handicapped.
We have had to bust our butts for our education and our homes. Nothing was handed to us!
It takes hard work to really have an appreciation of life, that is for sure.
I try and surround myself w/"glass is half full" types of people and I"m that way myself. I could not bear to constantly listen to the "half empty scenarios".
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