Year Old With !!hot!! — Mom Pov Rhonda 50

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Being a 50-year-old mom isn't about letting go of your youth. It's about realizing you never needed it in the first place. Mom POV Rhonda 50 Year Old With

I am Rhonda, 50 years old, with a new rule: If you can remember if it was about

I remember waking up on my 50th birthday and doing what I have done every morning for the last 27 years: I walked down the hallway of my own home like a ghost haunting someone else’s life. I checked on my husband’s side of the bed (empty, he left for work at 5 AM). I peeked into my daughter’s old room (now a yoga studio/closet). I stood at the kitchen sink, coffee in hand, and stared at the refrigerator that no longer holds juice boxes, lunchables, or permission slips. I am Rhonda, 50 years old, with a

I am Rhonda. I am 50 years old. I am a mom (always, forever). But I am also a painter, a slow runner, a terrible cook, and a woman who is finally, belatedly, learning to be her own best friend.

I have mourned this. Some days, I feel a loneliness so vast I could fall into it. My "village" has scattered. The other soccer moms moved to Florida or got divorced and moved to the city. I text them sporadically. It's not the same.