Episode Details

103: When You Say 'I Don't Mind, Whatever's Easy' for Mother's Day — And Spend Sunday Cleaning Up Your Own Gifts

Season 3 Episode 103 Published 3 weeks, 5 days ago

Description

There's a script around Mother's Day that doesn't account for any of us.

You're meant to want a candle, a coffee, a sleep-in, and to look visibly grateful at the end of it. If you can't name what you want, you're ungrateful. If you do name it, you have to manage it. If you stay quiet, you spend Sunday night cleaning up the wrapping paper from your own gifts.

This episode is the one underneath that script. The maths nobody's saying out loud. The reason your brain blanks. And one small thing to try this Sunday — not to fix the year, just to notice what the silence is actually doing.

This episode is for you if

He asks what you want and your brain just stops
You always say I don't mind, whatever's easy and then feel a bit hollow when Sunday's over
You've spent Mother's Days managing other people's mothers and have nothing left for your own
You're a single mum and Sunday is just another Sunday, except this one's worse
You're grieving — your own mum, the version of motherhood you wanted, or both
You've been telling yourself for years that you're just too sensitive