caslane

I agree with this completely. It is very hard, and I bet if our friends compared us now to what we were like before kids, we would appear more stressed, tired, or even depressed. And we absolutely miss the dual income/no kid lifestyle! But thinking about the whole scope of our life helped us make the decision to work through these tougher first few years. Maybe thinking about that question of what you want in ten, twenty, thirty, forty years might help.