Glennon Doyle

I feel like I can be pretty logical about changes.

Like I've had a lot of changes in my life.

So I understand in my head that things are supposed to change.

And that best case scenario is that your children go off on their own and wings and all that shit.

Give them wings.

And that makes sense to me in my brain.

But my body cannot handle it.

I don't understand.

I think that I became sober by becoming a mom.

Just was like, I guess I'll be a mom now.

And I just created just an entire identity around mom.

And then I don't have any groups that I ever feel belonging in.

I always feel like I don't belong in this group.

Like my friends who feel belonging all the time, I just don't even understand what they're talking about.

Like I just...

always feel like I'm encroaching or uncomfortable or like looking in from the outside.

But this little crew of these three kids and Abby is like the first little community that I've ever felt belonging in.

Like I've ever felt like I could be my full self, that they love me for exactly who I am.

I mean, honestly, they're contractually obligated to stay with me.

They need money.