This is a personal essay that so many mothers will identify with and find it speaks to a specific resentment of family life that while we direct at our partners is actually about the lack of prioritisation of ourselves. You have put a sensation into words and challenged our readers to re-evaulate where the feeling comes from and why our cultural conditioning is something we are still following even when year after year is causes relationship difficulties and a sense of being unable to put ourselves first. Great writing Melissa, thank you for sharing it with MW.