By Someonewise 
“Your time is precious; don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Whom is it directed to? Every woman lives her husband’s and child’s life. Does the sentence mean that one should not sacrifice their life for family and children? Which woman would dare to do it? None.
In modern society, as a responsible family member and in traditional society as a practice, duty, or love towards her family, she will sacrifice many of her priorities living for others and also living someone else’s life.
If a working woman, she will play her career role to support the financial needs of the family. If a homemaker, her life revolves around her husband and children with no identity of her own.
Now, why are we sympathizing with this, positioning it negatively, or aggravating her unknown feelings by bringing in revolt? Of course, half of society has suppressed women. Not all. And aren’t women beyond all this? Isn’t it a pleasure for them to be doing all this? Why are we victimizing them for the role they are playing out of love for their family and not because society is forcing them to?
Half of a woman’s life goes into cooking and caring for her children and husband. But doesn’t she like to do it? If only building their identity and chasing a career would make her happy, are all working unmarried women happy with what they are?
At one point, the so-called mid-life crisis bothers both men and women. They start questioning themselves about their journey, gratitude from all relations, their decisions, and feel it wasn’t worth having given so much to relations. It’s just a phase.
But doesn’t giving bring happiness? You don’t give to be acknowledged or thanked. You need to give to feel happy in any relation. There is gratitude or none, to be left to God. Yes, make others also feel responsibility in a relation.
Don’t overdo yourself to exhaustion. But exhaustion comes when you realize you’ve done too much. When you start expecting something in return. Who expects gratitude from their child? Only expect respect from your child and your husband. And that respect needs to be taught by both parents towards each other at an early age by respecting each other.
Wrong and unnecessary sympathies are making everyone weak and resilient.”