Yeah Grace is absolutely delusional. I also detected a note of jealously in her saying ‘that boy knows nothing but joy and fun’. I feel like she’s always saying stuff like that about her child, and it doesn’t sound very motherly lmao? She talks about him like he’s her baby brother or something, someone she loves and feels protective over and but also feels jealous and weirdly detached from?
Unfortunately it seems as though she’s one of those mothers who aren’t particularly maternal. She comes across as very much resenting having to be a caregiver and sacrifice any of her identity/autonomy. She doesn’t seem to take pride in the role at all.
Also the narcissism it takes to quote yourself in a tweet like that as if she said something so deeply wise and profound
. Not even getting into how deeply inaccurate her statement is. “The village never shows up” ??? But when your mum takes your son for multiple overnight stays every other week, what do you call that? Or when your sister does. Or when Lee and his friend take him out for the day. When you even fobbed the child off on Lee while he was attending his brothers university graduation because in your own words you couldn’t deal?? Obviously with Lee it should be a given, but she clearly has people in her life she can rely on for childcare.
The only way I could maybe understand what she’s saying is if she means the pressure of being the financial breadwinner? I got that vibe a few months ago when she was whining about how she wished she could just be a stay at home mum and not worry about having to work. Putting to one side the fact that her “work” is so nothing compared to most peoples full time professions. But also you willingly chose to settle down with a guy who makes less money than you? You chose to have a baby with a man who makes less money than you?? You made your own bed.