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This Is Not What I Planned: Nobody Told You Parenthood Would Feel Like This: The Identity Crisis, Exhaustion, Financial Shock, and Unexpected Love of

This Is Not What I Planned: Nobody Told You Parenthood Would Feel Like This: The Identity Crisis, Exhaustion, Financial Shock, and Unexpected Love of

Atelier, The Pelican
Chen, Riley

Paperback

Series: The Nobody Told Me This

Metaphysical GeneralSelf-Help

ISBN13: 9798197451606
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 18 2026
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Parenthood was supposed to feel meaningful.

Nobody warned you it might also feel disorienting, lonely, financially overwhelming, emotionally destabilizing, and nothing like the version people post online.

This Is Not What I Planned is the honest, research-informed guide to the transition nobody explains clearly enough: what happens to the adult during early parenthood.

This is not a parenting manual about sleep schedules or developmental milestones.

It is a book about you.

The identity shift. The exhaustion. The relationship strain. The invisible grief of losing the version of yourself you used to recognize. The financial shock nobody prepared you for. The love that exists alongside all of it.

Written in a compassionate, deeply validating voice, this book combines emotional honesty with documented research on matrescence, postpartum mental health, caregiver burnout, relationships, career disruption, and the first three years of parenthood.

Inside, you'll discover:

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