Needing help from her mother and mother-in-law made Kalli feel like a failure.
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Because, like, after I had my second son, and this was actually something that – and I remembered after we finished the interview. I was like, I didn’t really talk about my about my second son about what my experiences were like that with. Because the mental health was just a lot more amplified in the sense that because even with the help that I had at home. You know? Like I said, my mom was coming in four times a week, then my mother-in-law was coming once a week. I felt, number one, like, I couldn’t manage by myself and I needed someone else to help me. So case in point I can’t do any – I can’t mother by myself. I couldn’t cope. So I felt like a failure that way.
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