Links for Wednesday, January 16
Jan 16th, 2008 by Jill
- Marketplace: Lessons for Iran’s working woman - This segment mentions in passing an unusual and heartwarming arrangement than an Iranian mom and stepmom worked out.
- Hindsight, Relationships & Looking Inside Me: The Sub - a poem about what it can feel like sometimes to be the stepmom (by way of The Wicked Stepmom)
- 37days: F is for fear - “I believe much of the pain, war, anger, dysfunction, and hurt in the world can be traced directly to fear. I fear you won’t love me, so I hurt you before you can hurt me. We fear They will try to change Us, so we bomb them. I fear you will laugh at me so I laugh at you first. I feel self conscious so I make fun of you.” (more) I suspect that so many of the problems in stepfamilies and between moms and stepmoms are born out of fear. This post is a great reminder that fear can lead us to hurt each other preemptively.
