I was bored OF BEING A MUM

The comments were shocking. As I scrolled through them, I gulped, wondering if I’d done the right thing. You don’t deserve kids… Think about people who can’t have kids… You’re so selfish… I’d just written a newspaper opinion piece entitled ‘I love my kids but being a mother bores me’. It was an honest account of how I loved my then three-year-old son Alex but found motherhood itself dull and isolating. But I had no idea of the backlash I’d receive.

The piece got hundreds of comments beneath the article. I was contacted