What is a Mom in the Middle?

A Mom in the Middle is a woman who may feel torn. On one hand, she wants to devote herself to her home. She wants to be a good wife and mother. Whether she is working outside the home or not, a mom in the middle wants to contribute to the welfare of her family in a domestic, traditional sense.

And yet, on the other hand, for one reason or the other, a mom in the middle wants to thrive beyond this domestic role. Whether she needs to work to support her family financially or whether she wants to work to develop her own professional life, she finds herself living a dual life—a professional, even progressive woman on one hand and a domestic, even traditional woman on the other. These roles may seem like dual lives, but they are not duel-ling lives. They do not have to be at war with each other.

Mothers in the Middle are devoted to supporting women who feel this tension. We want to expose this tension not as a negative space, but as a creative space. It is the space where women are carving out their own identities.

A woman's devotion to her interests outside the home contribute to the kind of mother she is inside the home. And the role of wife and mother invigorate the kind of woman she is outside the home. Rather than feeling torn and anxious, we want moms in the middle to embrace who they are and use their gifts and talents in their families, in their workplace, and in their communities.