Glass On the Kitchen Floor

The end of the perfect family and the start of something so much more

ADEOLA SHEEHY-ADEKALE
Modern Women
Published in
5 min readMay 16, 2023

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Image by Paul Kapischka on Unsplash

Sometimes things hit you all at once, almost as though it’s the aftershocks of an event that collapse the ground underneath you, rather than the moment of impact itself. The separation from my partner had been months before, but on a random sunny day, the tremors arrived.

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ADEOLA SHEEHY-ADEKALE
Modern Women

Writing on female experience, race, motherhood & self-development. Columnist at Green Parent magazine & Parenting Top Writer. Follow me on IG @adeola_moonsong.