Her kids were now at school so she had the time; what she also had was a big old bucket load of mother guilt -- guilt that if she began devoting time and energy to writing the book, it would mean less time and energy for her children.
Concurrently, he carried a gargantuan load of Catholic guilt: he was convinced that his philandering and other careless behavior, which began in the early days of his marriage, had caused his son's deafness.
The mother goes to work in the World Trade Center, and doesn't come home; Wendy is left with a load of inchoate guilt and misery, a devoted stepfather, an adored half brother, and a father in California, who, after years of neglect, is suddenly interested in her.
There's a grand design to Charles Todd's period novels featuring Inspector Ian Rutledge, a Scotland Yard detective who returned from the battlefields of World War I burdened with a heavy load of survivor's guilt.
My swoons, on the other hand, tended to occur outside shop windows as I checked and rechecked the zeroes on my calcluator against the ones on the price tags, and a little voice inside my head whispered: "Hey, you can afford this!" In such moments, being surrounded by so many other people struggling under a load of Michelin guides, guilt and shopping bags made me feel much better.
It's a question that has no answer, but which is asked, in infinite permutations, by all women who shoulder the triple load of motherhood, career and guilt.
All too often, the new moms I work with toil under a load of self-imposed doubt, guilt and shame - on lots of issues - more weighty than anyone else would lay on them.
He tends to reserve the trademark sneer, loaded first question and presumption of guilt for members of parliament and ministers – even those who, truth be told, wield only the most modest modicum of influence.
