![]() ![]() If Williams can’t have it all, then what hope do I-a mere mortal-have of achieving the same? And then I remember my Forever FLOTUS Michelle Obama once saying, it’s impossible to have it all, at least at the same time. But Williams’ retirement announcement once again left me feeling sad and defeated. These women are clearly doing the damn thing (albeit, they definitely have a lot more help in doing so than the average parent). There was still so much I wanted to achieve, and I’d seen and heard nothing but horror stories about how motherhood would tamper such ambitions. It felt unfair that my husband didn’t have to consider the same tradeoff. Then as the calendar drew nearer to that milestone birthday, I began having second thoughts-unsure I wanted to give up my personal and professional ambitions for the sake of starting our family. At the time, I was a media relations manager at a local nonprofit, and I wanted to achieve a director-level role (and the larger salary that came with it) before I took time off to raise our kids. When my husband and I got married, I was 27 and I decided I wanted to wait until 30 to start our family because I didn’t want to put my career on hold. Maybe I’d be more of a Tom Brady if I had that opportunity.” If I were a guy, I wouldn’t be writing this because I’d be out there playing and winning while my wife was doing the physical labor of expanding our family. In a heartfelt essay for Vogue, Williams wrote: “Believe me, I never wanted to have to choose between tennis and a family. My heart broke when I went on to read that she wasn’t exactly thrilled about it either. As soon as I read Olympia, her 4-year-old daughter, wants to be a big sister, I started crying because I already knew what was coming next: the end of Williams’ illustrious tennis career was near. It’s been a little more than a week since Serena Williams announced her retirement, and I’m still in shambles.
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