Sleep as the supreme luxury: a mother's odyssey for rest. Spatial and temporal distance feeds back love and strengthens it.
Once children are sleeping through the night, a separation can do a lot of good. It is not about self-indulgence, but about a vital need to provide ourselves with the mental and physical rest that allows us to move forward with our physical faculties. Being able to stop to savor that freedom is what everyone wants and what we should all strive for.