I love, I love

[metaphortunate]

I now understand all those stupid mother-in-law jokes, and all the grim women on DWIL Nation talking about their husbands' unhealthy entanglements with their mothers. Which is not to say that I think I have an unhealthy entanglement with my kids. I think my relationship with my kids is healthy and wonderful, for kids of the ages of four and not

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[amaebi]

Pre-kid, I didn't know why love for one's child should be categorically different from other loves, which always seemed to me to differ by the nature of the beloved, not by class.

And then, it's different! I was amazed!

And so far as I could tell it was different precisely because of that physical-enwrapping thing. :)

[khedron]

Awww.

chemtrails, which is what I read at first.>

[olamina]

I can relate to this all SO MUCH.I also delight in how happy my son makes my husband in that sensual way you describe. I feel like having this other little person/dynamic enriches us immeasurably.

[kcatalyst]

Yes yes yes. And I was a little afraid of how bad it would feel as they got bigger. With Seth, we missed it a LOT, which was a big contributor towards wanting a second. But this time, each step of embiggening comes with so much more freedom for me, that I'm really not sad. Although to be fair, I have pretty darn snuggly kids. We're still multi-hours a day snuggling Jesse and Seth is pretty free with the hugs and patient with hair-ruffles and so on.

It took my MIL until well past my appearance on the scene (maybe into his late 20s?) to cool it with the constant hair-ruffling and so on. I felt weird finding it weird, because family love is nice, right? But it still seemed a bit weird. I didn't say anything to her about it, since it wasn't a *problem*. But.