Your Daughter Isn’t Difficult. She’s Just Tired of Raising Herself.

Dear eldest daughters, let me tell you a story. I started a new job a few weeks ago, and I’ve never known myself to be so irritable. Or at least, that’s what I thought. The truth is, I’ve been angry for a while. Maybe a few weeks, maybe months. Or maybe much earlier, when I first started understanding what being the oldest daughter actually meant. I don’t remember always being like this or feeling like anger could take up this much space in my head, to the point where it sometimes feels like my default emotion. But I’m starting to think it has been there for a long time, just much quieter than I realised.

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