Why did Adele's new album take so long? Mom guilt!

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Carolyn Robertson

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Good news for the millions of Adele fans out there: The "Hello" singer announced this morning that she'll be kicking off a North American tour in July, spending five months criss-crossing the continent.

When she heads out on the road she will no doubt have her 3-year-old son Angelo in tow.

“Leaving him when he would rather be with me is hard," Adele, 27, recently admitted. "But he comes everywhere with me."

Her devotion to her little boy is part of the reason why there were four years between her last smash album, 21, and her new one, 25. As a new mom, she says she's really struggled trying to balance her family life and her career.

"Even the time making the record, the guilt. I don’t think any of us really get over it. It makes me emotional when I talk about it actually," she says. "It is constant struggle of 'am I spending enough time with my child? Am I doing enough work?'"

She continues, "You know what the killer thing is when you get home and cannot wait to see them and they punish you. It is the worst when they kick off for you, and all you want to do is love them, and they are like I don’t want to play with you. It is like the hardest thing ever. They make you cry and that is why they do it. They are so clever."

I can relate. While I've never felt as though my kids are out to "punish" me for being away from them, I definitely know that heart-wrenching feeling when they tell me they wish I didn't have to leave. When they ask me, "Not all moms work, so why do you?"

It pulls at me - how could it not? In my case, though, I don't think that "guilty" is quite the right word for how I feel about working. Sometimes I may feel torn, but deep down I never really feel that I'm doing something wrong or that my kids are suffering for it.

In any case, while Adele may suffer from the all too common affliction of "mommy guilt," she acknowledges that on the whole her life is pretty great.

"Obviously my work is incredible; it sounds silly calling it work but it is when you have a kid because you have take time away from them," she says. “So I do find it hard, but I am in a lucky, blessed, privileged situation with how I manage to balance mine so I feel lucky."

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