Our therapists were always very clear that they’d really prefer we hit 40 hours a week, meals be damned. and when we said we wanted to drop to 10 to let our kid have a life, we experienced a “rapid fade” to zero.
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin