“I was in a perpetual battle with my own mind, one that I was desperately losing. I turned angry, impatient, and ridiculously stringent. My partner bore the worst of it because all my unchecked anger released itself once the baby was asleep, onto him. I was always irritable because my head was a nightmare to live in. I was cracking the whip endlessly on myself and my husband, and both of us were feeling the damage. I had no outlet, and I wasn’t telling anyone how much I was actually suffering.”