Jenny, I agree with you that timing was everything. I was willing to tolerate no sex, as long as I had a nice career. Once I quit my job, the emptiness of my personal self was overwhelming. I know lots of mothers would say, How can you feel empty when you just had your first baby?
Well, again, I'm not talking about how I felt in relation to my daughter, or as a mother. But solely and completely as a person--mySELF. I felt empty (as many first time stay at home mothers do) and the lack of sex underscored that everything about my former life had been taken from me. Our sex life was in the crapper before we ever even conceived our first child so it wasn't a product of the children, but I was able to shrug my shoulders, take care of myself, and go on with life until I found myself in our home 24 hours a day.
