Cool Girls Become Cool Moms

Lisa Martens
“Are you okay?”
2 min readMay 7, 2024

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Cool girls become cool moms. Cool girls laugh at jokes they don’t really find funny; cool girls dissociate around confident girls.

Cool girls think it’s easier to give birth than to ask him to wear a condom. Cool girls do a lot of work explaining why marriage means nothing. Cool girls become cool moms.

Cool moms always have to do pick ups and drop offs because they’re not married and their baby daddy isn’t allowed. Cool moms have to do extra work. Cool moms always have to bring the kids to the doctor. Cool moms explain to their kids why their dad simply can’t help. Their kids silently play with their toys in the back seat.

Cool moms become sacrificing, resentful older women. Cool moms teach their kids to be their emotional support. Cool moms draw from that well and try to prevent their kids from moving away.

Cool moms become older women who don’t believe in love. Cool moms feel abandoned. Cool moms didn’t expect or demand anything, but still, they didn’t get what they deserved.

Resentful older women are made fun of by men. They chose wrong! They should have saved themselves! They’re ran through!

Cool girls sacrifice themselves; cool girls are praised until they’re an inconvenience.

Cool girls turn into cool moms turn into angry grandmas, who wonder what things would have been like if they hadn’t been quite so cool.

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Lisa Martens
“Are you okay?”

A remote working Latina. Storytelling is a calling. Read, support, and more here: https://linktr.ee/lisathewriter