Katharina Buczek
This 31-year-old woman is a brand-new mother to a beautiful baby girl, and next week, she will be returning to work. Of course, she is stressed out and exhausted.
“But also loving being a mom and excited to get back to the office,” she said.
Her 35-year-old sister-in-law is also a mother and had a daughter about a year before her. However, unlike her, her sister-in-law decided not to go back to work – becoming a full-time stay-at-home mom instead.
Their different parenting preferences were never an issue, either, until this past Saturday, when they both went over to her in-law’s house for dinner.
While talking to her mother-in-law, she brought up the fact that she was heading back to work soon and mentioned the daycare she plans to send her daughter to.
That was when her sister-in-law – who she thought always seemed threatened by her – decided to voice an opinion. More specifically, her sister-in-law said it was unbelievable that she was placing her daughter in daycare at such a young age.
“My sister-in-law then said her baby ‘has a charmed life’ because she gets to nap in her crib each afternoon and have her mom around,” she recalled.
The remark made her a bit annoyed, yet she still tried to just brush it off. She even told her sister-in-law what a great mom she was.
This helped the conversation move forward, or so she thought – since, later, her sister-in-law made another random comment about how she’d never want to have her job. For some context, she works as a lawyer, and her sister-in-law stated that all lawyers do is “stress and fight all day.”
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