When couples become parents, there is almost always great joy. However, many are surprised by the completely different and exhausting everyday life with children. This is not how they imagined it, new parents often tell each other. Completely exhausted, she and her husband could only discuss organizational matters in the evening, complains a mother of two from the Berlin-Mitte district.

Usually new parents only confide in close friends with children with such unsparing honesty. Because what they say doesn't fit the romantic image of happy parents with a smiling baby. Many couples are therefore faced with the question: "Is it really just us?"

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