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Handy all, that app. Until one day, exhausted, you choose the wrong recipient for your spicy text message and you appear on the schoolyard with a blush on your cheeks.
Eva (34) is mother of Thijmen (5) and Simon (3) and married to Luuk (33):
“Deadly tired from another broken night and a morning when I was again alone with the children because my husband – ‘Let’s make some meters’ – left for work extra early, I was done.
Sweating my back from the stress of getting everyone out the door more or less clean and fed, I grabbed my phone in a traffic jam on my way to work to send a voice message to my husband. I made no secret of my annoyance, grumbled until I ran out of words and concluded with, “If you don’t show me all the corners of the bedroom tonight, I’ll file for divorce.”
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Sent
As the cars in front of me started moving again, I released the record button in WhatsApp. Sent – to school’s assistant mother group, I found out when I parked at the office half an hour later. I thought I was going to pass out from panic. Clicked ‘delete message’, but it was already too late.
“I thought I was going to pass out from panic”
‘I have one like that at home,’ one of the mothers responded with a wink. “Don’t open my mouth,” said another. “And have fun tonight,” concluded a third. I showed up a few days later with shame on my face to arrange the Easter decorations.”
This article can be found in Kek Mama 06-2022.
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