Midnight Snack E37: I Love You Deeply… Now Go the F**k Away

Reality Check My Life | Midnight Snack | E37: I Love You Deeply… Now Go the F**k AwayThere’s a version of motherhood nobody puts on greeting cards.The part where you love your kids so much you’d fight a bear for them…and also fantasize about 48 straight hours where nobody needs you for anything.This is that episode.The one about being the over-giver.The crisis manager.The emotional infrastructure.The one who held everything together when their dad checked out… came back empty… and then died.The one who modeled strength, resilience, self-sacrifice…and accidentally taught everyone that Mom will always carry it.So now they’re compassionate.Kind.Over-functioning for everyone else.And still somehow calling you like you’re the 24/7 emotional hotline.Meanwhile you’re tired in your bones.Invisible.Expected.Rarely thanked.This isn’t “I hate my kids.”It’s:“I love you with my whole heart… and I am not the power grid anymore.”Tonight we talk about:• over-giving as a survival strategy• how kids learn self-abandonment by watching us• becoming emotional infrastructure• the grief of being needed but not seen• and the radical act of saying: “I love you… now go live your own life”Tender.Salty.Honest.Porch-light truth at midnight.If you’ve ever loved someone deeply and still needed space to breathe…this one’s for you.