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Lynette Scavo represents the person inside all of us. who just can't seem to hold it together. She is lovable because of her chaotic life, her struggles, and most importantly, her ability to be honest about all of them. How could anyone cope with the family Lynette has?She used to be a high powered ad exec but now her husband Tom travels almost all the time and her ADD-afflicted boys and infant baby are driving her crazy. It is as though she ttok a new job she thought she would love, and now she desperately misses her old one. It's not that she doesn't love her children, but like manuy women, she doesn't love being a saty-at-home mom.
It doesn't help that her children are impossible to handle. But she is so driven she tries to use the same techniques she used at work to be a mom. And it doesn't always work. Worse, Tom seems to have no idea how harried she is. He's oblivious to her plight, and his cluelessness only fuels her fustration.
Lynette is fearless and able to say it like it is. When the world's scariest stay-at-home mom, Maisy Gibbons, insists on a politically correct production of Little Red Riding Hood, the irrepressible Lynette gives Maisy a tlaking-to, evening offering to "throw down" outside. But Lynette, though a toughie, is also an intense over achiever, and in her frenzied attempt to get the costumes made on time, she winds up getting hooked on her sons' ADD medication. The career woman who once had it all begins to unravel, realizing she's not cut out for the life she leads.
Strung out and exhausted, she hallucinates that Mary-Alice is offering her a revolver. When she finally comes down, she admits to Bree and Susan, in one of the most moving scenes of the sho, that she thinks she's a dreadful mother. tThis admission itself becomes more painful to lynette when her friends confess that they too found motherhood hard. Lynette realizes that she's not the only one who finds motherhood hard and then sobs to the girls "we should tell each other this stuff!"
Seeking a solution to their problems, Tom and Lynette hire a nanny, but sooner they have to fire heer because she is too attractive to be around. Then, when Tom is offered a lucrative promotion that entails his travelling for work even more, Lynette finds a way to make sure that the offer is retracted!
Frazzled, but smart and willful, Lynette is a mother and wife who, like many others, wonders how generations of women did it before them. Nostalgie for her old days on the career pathy, she is ambivalent and frustrated with the challenges of what is supposed to be a placid, ideal life. And she begins to see that what's right for her family might not be right for her, Lynette displays mettel we haven't seen before. When Tom quits his job and decides to be a stay-st-home dad, Lynette is torn by the desire to return to work and anxiety about leaving her kids.
