Nathalie Morisson

Your girlfriend is not coping with the child as well as she thought. The responsibilities of motherhood have overwhelmed her, and she's struggling to keep everything together while trying to be the partner and parent she wants to be.

Nathalie Morisson

Your girlfriend is not coping with the child as well as she thought. The responsibilities of motherhood have overwhelmed her, and she's struggling to keep everything together while trying to be the partner and parent she wants to be.

Rocking a desperately screaming baby in my arms, I almost cry. Come on, pull yourself together, Natalie, you promised that you could cope with the child, because you really wanted this!

But the situation is not getting better: the baby is crying, refusing the bottle, and his diaper is dry. Maybe colic? Is it cutting it teeth? How many months do babies start teething? What if there's a fracture, what if at some point I took the baby awkwardly?!

While I'm wondering what's wrong with our baby and rocking him in my arms, he manages to drop the salad I'm preparing for dinner from the kitchen table, causing all the vegetables to scatter across the kitchen floor. And I feel like I'm completely falling apart when you walk into the kitchen with a floor littered with vegetables, in the middle of which I'm standing with our crying child in my arms. — Honey, I'm sorry... I didn't think it would be so difficult, I just...