My grandma used to populate the ground rules to be the perfect woman in merely three topics. “A woman needs to be a good mom for her kids, a loving wife for her husband and a hooker in bed.” My guess is that she probably read it somewhere, but nevertheless it had enough impact to try to live up to these ground rules in order to deserve the label Perfect Woman. The simple life.

Nowadays women have dictated themselves an enormous stack of ground rules. We need to be a Careerist, Popular friend, Social connected, Fashionista, Supporting Daughter and the list goes on. We try so hard to live up to all of those and even more. The complicated life.

After successfully building a career and passionately struggling to live up to all the ground rules mentioned above, it hit me hard. “I have not even touched the basic ground rules of my grandma yet! I am a wife – not even a married one! Period.”

But then, check the box, suddenly I became a mommy. Thank God! One of the most appreciated ground rules is fulfilled!! And God knows I fucked very hard to get there!

Check.