No One Ever Told Me that Motherhood Could Feel This #%^&^!

Coping with Empty Nest Syndrome on Mother’s Day Weekend

jax skalecki
9 min readMay 16, 2023

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Image by 피어나네 from Pixabay

Are you there, God? It’s me, Margaret. Well, it’s not actually Margaret, but then you knew that. I just have to know the answer to this question: Is this the new tween stage in my life that I never saw coming? This whole being a mom thing and then being a mom except not…

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jax skalecki

I became a writer the moment I could mark with a crayon. Nowadays, I prefer purple pen. Serendipity is finding a creative space to be, with my dog as my #1 fan.