Mutha Magazine Article Allison (macOS SECURE)

Then another: “Reminder: Soccer pictures tomorrow. White jersey, shin guards, no jewelry.”

Her legs went soft. She didn’t faint. She simply sat down on the linoleum floor, right between the flaxseed and the chia. She pulled her knees to her chest. And she wept—not the elegant, tear-streaked cry of a movie mother, but the guttural, snotty, animal sound of a creature who has been running for so long that the idea of stopping feels like dying. mutha magazine article allison

The Unbecoming: Allison on Shedding the Good Mother Myth Then another: “Reminder: Soccer pictures tomorrow

It wasn’t a fight. It wasn’t a diagnosis. It wasn’t even a tantrum. tear-streaked cry of a movie mother

That was the beginning of the unbecoming.