While I always meant to become a mother, I didn’t set out to become a housewife. I suppose that by the time I became a wife, a the kanji, reading “inside () the house (),” meant it was inevitable; that it was written, in fact. Especially since I now had a , a husband, or a “main () person ().” A protagonist in my life, and I wasn’t it. Some days I can’t quite work out how I got here; I opted for the guy, I opted for the kids, I just didn’t realize that meant waving goodbye to everything else.
