Read a marvelous editorial in, of all places, Parenting magazine. The quote that has me nodding:
Instead, she reminded me of what I’d never recover, opening an ancient grief. In the intervening years, I’d tried to spin that trauma into a necessary trial, one that made me more compassionate. But the unadorned truth, freshly confronted in Gillian’s house, is that motherhood’s first months gouged a terrible pit in my heart.