Octamom: The Musings of a Mother to a Multitude

She calls her­self “Octa­mom” because she is the mother of three boys and five girls to whom she refers accord­ing to their birth order, e.g., “4 of 8,” “7 of 8,” etc.

Today she is receiv­ing the Post of the Day Award for her recent arti­cle, The Tide of Code­pen­dency.

Although she writes a vari­ety of dif­fer­ent posts, I was not pre­pared for what appeared to be a con­fes­sional Novem­ber 6, 2008 entry. It began:

I believe it’s called a co-dependent relationship.

And I know it’s not healthy.

But I knew what I was get­ting into, I knew that it was a rela­tion­ship that was bound to be filled with set­backs and mess and obsession.

And now, I just don’t see any way out.

I kept read­ing out of a mix­ture of con­cern, com­pas­sion and unre­pen­tent curios­ity. Clev­erly, Octa­mom pro­vided more details about the nature of the unhealthy rela­tion­ship in which she found her­self enmeshed.

And then, of course, is the jeal­ousy inher­ent in the rela­tion­ship itself. If I decide to take a day for myself, to push aside the con­fines and insis­tence of this code­pen­dency, I return from my sojourn to find things worse off than when I left, …

Octamom’s “lov­ing hus­band,” “father of the 8.”

Jeal­ousy? “Wow,” I thought to myself. “She is in a seri­ously dys­func­tional rela­tion­ship. I really hope she is going to be all right.” I sent good vibra­tions her way as I con­tin­ued read­ing, will­ing her to find the strength to do what was nec­es­sary to assure her well-being.

And then, as I con­tin­ued read­ing and scrolling down the page …

No, you’ll have to find out for your­self! All I am going to tell you is that Octa­mom is an inven­tive writer and you will enjoy not only the par­tic­u­lar post hon­ored today, but the rest of her entries, as well. Like me, you will want to sub­scribe so that you can stay up to date with Octa­mom and “the crew.”

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Octa­mom for her spirit and tal­ent. Per­haps, in addi­tion to receiv­ing the Post of the Day Award, she’ll score a pro­mo­tional deal to help pay col­lege tuition for all of the adorable Octachil­dren. (You’ll under­stand what I mean after you read The Tide of Code­pen­dency in its entirety.)

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