Sounds bad but I don’t actually feel sorry for her at all. This is all her own fault
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Exactly, it’s through her ‘parenting’ that Raven is the way she is, and sadly that’s backfiring on her now. If she wasn’t so intent on doing things the crunchy way, and not being a ‘mainstream’ parent if she’d done things the ‘typical’ way, Dean would be settling Raven into her bed after reading her a story and having a bath, at a sensible time, not bloody 11pm or whatever time Queen R decides she’s tired and Pea would be nursing Ember to sleep in a situation where she’s not feeling overwhelmed because her 3.5 year old isn’t crying for attention/milky cuddles, she’d be finding things much easier if she’d encouraged that bond between Dean and Raven, instead of wanting to be physically attached to R all the time, but she hasn’t done any of those things, she hasn’t made things easier for any of them by staunchly following the crunchy parent narrative, and now everyone seems to be suffering because of it. It’s a
tit situation that she’s in, and obviously she’s struggling, which is awful but she’s the one who created this situation for herself and her family.