More pointedly, I was angry because I had crossed my personal boundaries with my professional existence. Or really, I hadn’t set any boundaries at all. I was angry I had spent a vast majority of my waking hours thinking about and attending to work rather than my kids, my marriage, my friends, and that I had deluded myself into believing this level of sacrifice was required or worth it. I was also angry with myself for spending all my energy building something that felt personal but at the end of the day was not mine. The most painful part was that I had wrapped up my value with my job—my
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