Moms Deserve More Steam — Lucy Parker

Happily married thirtysomething mother of three seeks twenty minutes of goddamn peace and quiet... Yeah okay, so my marriage isn't totally happy. It's fine, really. It's fine. My husband is a great partner and an amazing father. My kids are-- I love my kids, I do. I love my life, mostly. It's just, sometimes I miss being me, you know? I miss being Amy--just Amy. I mean, the woman I was before... the woman I think, and hope, that I still am deep down, underneath the wife and the mother and all the other hats I wear-- beneath all the identities I've had to take on, that have somehow become who I am now. Sometimes, a mom just wants to be a woman for a change--and I think all moms deserve that, and a dash of spice, too.