Returning to Work After Maternity Leave: What You Get Back

The other day, I wanted to buy something small and caught myself thinking, I should probably check first. Not because my husband controls our money. He doesn’t. We’re a team, the money is ours, and raising our children is work - even if no one sends me a payslip for remembering we’re nearly out of wipes. But after spending most of my adult life earning my own income, not earning felt strange. Returning to work after maternity leave meant leaving my children more than I wanted to. It also...