EastEnders' Melissa Suffield leaves fans in tears after honest 'mum guilt' admission

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EastEnders' Melissa Suffield has opened up about feeling "mum guilt" and how she sometimes feels that she isn't cut out for being a mother.The stunning 29-year-old mum-of-one and former soap star even left her followers "crying" after they read what she had to say.Taking to Instagram, the former EastEnders actress who played Lucy Beale in the soap from 2004 until 2010 penned a touching poem about being a mum.READ NEXT: EastEnders' Melissa Suffield snubs OnlyFans as she 'won't charge' for lingerie picsMelissa is a mum to River - who was born one week before the first Coronavirus-inflicted lockdown in March 2020 - and she shared a sweet snap of her with him alongside the poem.Penning a moving and relatable poem, Melissa put her finger ontothe screen and wrote the piece titled "a mother's guilt".She wrote: "You’re a mum now, that’s it, there’s nothing left to say // There are no other sides to you, have you got that, ok?"You live to serve your children, don’t you understand your luck? // You’re 'tired' and 'touched out', and 'feeling pretty stuck'?"How dare you even consider a 5-minute break // Or a shower or a coffee with a little slice of cake."She went on to touch on the way mums tend to "blame themselves" for the predicament they're in, before recalling some of the thoughts that mother's have.Melissa went on: "Maybe you aren’t cut out for this, did you ever stop to think?

The camels back is weakening, the ship’s about to sink."Just one more word from me until you’ll feel yourself explode- // Wait…hold on…what are you doing?

Don’t ask to share the load!"Don’t take that break, don’t ask for help, or say what you want to say // I’m losing strength, I can feel myself fast slipping away."The doubts we have are only loud when.