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What about balancing my work when it depends on me? like if I'm a school teacher and need to be there in the classroom or if I'm a stay-at-home mom and need to be there for my kid?

So how do you manage to balance being a mom, wife, lover, cook, maid, "counsler", playmate and still be able to communicate with the outside world like a normal human being? I am a stay at home mom and I don't get out much..that is MY job 24 hours a day 7 days a week...I feel like I am losing all ability to talk to anyone except my husband and my child and still appear "normal" LOL

Being at home everyday with rare trips to either a store after hubby is home, or to  the very VERY rare night out with the girls...I tend to not do well talking to others or at least it feels that way! I am so anxious to talk to an adult who doesn't already know what all I did in my day or that doesn't know my life that I come off as feeling like a spaz...so how does a stay at home mom manage to have social skills when 90% of the time they are at home being one of many things?????