I was in deep conversation with a friend about parenting and she said to me, “I don’t want to do it alone,” as if she was confessing some guilty secret. I looked at her and said believe you me, I hear you.
Parenting is a two-person job, whether that is a mom with her mom or a dad and his parents, or two adults, or one adult and one already grown kid, or whatever, for one person to be a parent is an enormous enormous weight to carry.