Dr. Edna Lekgabe
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Matrescence is the motherhood equivalent of adolescence.
It's like puberty 2.0.
I call it a developmental earthquake and no one else can feel it.
There's this thing that happens for women.
Their identity shifts.
Something moves.
Something changes in a woman.
She's not the same.
Just like the adolescent, the kid is no longer there.
You're now an adult.
Women are becoming something.
There's this pull to focus on this baby to keep it alive.
But there's this push on the other side, which is my old self.
I need to sleep.
I need to eat.
I need to go out.
That's matrescence.
I do not give a fuck.
I-D-G-A-F is in the dictionary.
Matrescence isn't.