I’m pregnant with my third child. I went back to work after the first two with little enjoyment and a good deal of exhaustion but this time feel like jacking it in. I don’t need the money as I am married to a lawyer, and I would like to spend more time with the children. But what worries me is how much of my esteem is tied up in the idea of my job, in saying to people at parties: “I’m a partner at a big law firm.” I fear that if I say instead: “I’m a mother,” no one will want to talk to me and I will be diminished. Is this worry pathetic?
我懷上了第三個孩子。上兩次生完孩子，我都滿不情願、滿懷疲憊地回去工作了，但這一次，我有點不想回去了。我不需要那份工資（我老公是律師），而且也想多陪陪孩子們。但有一點讓我感到擔憂：別人對我的尊重，在多大程度上是與我的工作聯繫在一起的？我擔心，如果參加宴會的時候對別人說「我是個全職媽媽」，而不是「我是一家大律所的合夥人」，會沒人理我、會被人小瞧。這種擔心是不是挺可悲的？
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