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 Our relationship became transactional—and contentious. We barked reminders at one another about paying the mortgage and loading and unloading the dishwasher, playing a dangerous game of “whose day was harder?”

But normal never came. Whether it was the baby’s colic, or my excruciatingly painful nipples, or George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and Elijah McClain, or the dismal and terrifying political landscape, or the postpartum depression, or the fact that it had been months since we’d been back to our apartment in the city or seen friends or had steady childcare help, the summer months of my maternity leave left us battered. When I went back to remote work in the fall, there was nothing charming about our millennial remake of Mr. Mom. Broken down by the mind-numbing repetition of the diaper changing, and the feeding, and the nap schedules, with no possible hope for free time, for either of us, the best my husband could do most days while I worked was keep the kids fed and away from outlets and sharp objects. I remained barely conscious enough for bath time and bedtime at night. The dishes and the laundry piled up, and as I’d make the pilgrimage from my makeshift office to the kitchen, where I’d prepare the same revolving cast of dinners every single week, our relationship became transactional—and contentious. We barked reminders at one another about paying the mortgage and loading and unloading the dishwasher, playing a dangerous game of “whose day was harder?” He felt underappreciated and unseen. I felt underappreciated and overworked. The classical music became menacing to me, so my husband would play a more tolerable mix of Steely Dan, Little Feat, and Donnie Hathaway when I was in earshot. In October, when he was decisively out of earshot, I finally got around to listening to Taylor Swift’s Folklore, alone. I cried. For no reason, for all the reasons.

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