Someone I was friends with in college is trying to have a kid, and I guess they're running into fertility problems.
Here's the interesting thing...I figured she'd eventually want a kid, but I totally didn't anticipate the angsty hand-wringing that would come should they have trouble conceiving. I figured that based on what I knew of her,that she'd either adopt a kid, or decide to be CF (she always was into simple living and maintaining a low environmental footprint, including population control). But no, now she's all weep-and-wail about how having a kid would be the perfect expression of the love that she and her spouse have for each other, and that they won't even consider adoption, how she feels like she's failed, feels less feminine, yada yada yada. At least she's not going IVF...so at least she's not that far gone.
Totally out of alignment with the values and such I'd seen in her for so many years! It's so weird! Either my own forecasting was wrong, or she changed, or a little of both.
I'm sad that she's done a 180 degree turnaround when it comes to values, but I'm also getting a certain amount of amusement out of it, in a schadenfreude kind of way.
Fortunately she lives in another state and we don't see each other much. I have a feeling that unless she decides to either shit or get off the pot, we'll be seeing even less of each other.