Interesting. My experience was very different. Perhaps it’s because I chose to have children only a year after finishing college? I didn’t experience any grief at all. It was all amazingly fulfilling and life-expanding for me — but I didn’t have much ability to experience life in other ways. I had no money to travel, for example. So all my hopes and dreams went into motherhood. Also, I gave birth in 1989 and 1992, so things have changed a lot. And I didn’t parent conventionally, which I think helped me.