09/27/2025
No one really prepares you for parenting in your 30s and 40s.
Your children are growing and need you more than ever.
Your partner leans on you for love and support.
And your parents, now older, quietly need your care too.
You’re pulled in every direction — giving, loving, juggling.
You want your kids to have more than you ever did.
You want to repay your parents with the same devotion they once gave you.
You want to be present for your partner through it all.
But life in this middle chapter is heavy.
No matter how much you pour out, there never seems to be enough hours, enough energy, enough you.
Some days you wonder if you’re falling short everywhere.
If this is your season, please hear this: you are not failing.
You are carrying more than most will ever see.
You are the glue, the balance, the steady hands that keep it all together.
To every parent living in the middle — tired but loving, stretched but still showing up — you are enough. ❤️🩹
