I hate Mother& #39;s Day. I just need to say that.
I dislike made up holidays. Being a mom is really hard and to me a "day" is and excuse to ignore all that. My own mother was awful. I lost a kid. I want people to do things for me because they love me, not because of holiday guilt.

an* excuse.
Sigh

This is actually a theme in The Menopause Manifesto. We are here evolutionarily speaking because of the physical carnage of menstruation, pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, child rearing etc etc. Even if you choose not to have kids you have the physiology and can have consequences

On top of all that physical carnage the burden of childrearing has largely fallen onto mothers. In addition to the physical carnage their is the financial. Again, even if you don& #39;t have kids you are likely to get paid less.
So a day? A day?

If you like Mother& #39;s Day, that is totally fine. People get to like what they like. But honesty the Mother& #39;s Day Industrial Complex feels like an excuse to avoid the real discussions.