I'm 32. My parents want grandkids. I work 60 hours a week and then pick up my niece from school because my sister works too. I'm just so tired. Constantly. Is this just... adulting? Or is this adrenal fatigue? I just keep thinking about the village my grandmother talks about back home. I don’t have that. I just have... exhaustion.
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