Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices January 22, 2021 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices January 22, 2021 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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Cambion
I can't remember if we've shared this here, but there is a less populated sub called r/regretfulparents where Moos and Duhs come to talk about how much they wish they never bred, peppered with obligatory "oh but I lurve my kids" horse shit because apparently children are the only thing that you can love and regret at the same time.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices January 22, 2021 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,257 |
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I'm 2 months postpartum with our third child and partner wants another one in 3 years; he talks about it almost twice a week. I'm at the end of my rope. I have a tolerate/hate relationship with my 3 year old twins and my new baby. She has colic and screams 5 hours a day. My partner travels frequently for work and is often gone on weekends and says I complain too much. My parents live in another state. I know I'm slipping into a mighty depression and I cant help but regret this baby. When I told my partner I didn't want any more children he literally punched a hole in the wall of our apartment. I'm not naive in that I understand this behavior will most likely escalate but I have no support system outside of my partner. This is just the short version of it but I'm at my wits end and seemingly out of options.
Thanks for listening to my rant.
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He has offered to help me hire a part-time babysitter for all 3 kids, but insists that I pay for it instead of him (i only have a savings account. I'm a SAHM and don't have income).
There are other red flags as well. He is pressuring me to start taking 1 or 2 college classes right now so I can get a head start (did I mention I'm uneducated?) on my schooling, but I'm already so slammed that it would just exacerbate my fragile emotional state. He says if I can't do at least 1 class with 3 kids then I'm not managing my time correctly.
I know I need to leave. It saddens me because I will have to rip my children away from their father.:/
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices January 24, 2021 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,122 |
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices January 24, 2021 | Registered: 16 years ago Posts: 1,998 |
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Cambion
And why so so many of these women have precisely nothing going for them? No savings, no education (either standard or secondary), no job skills, no skills in general, nothing at all. Like were their husbands shopping for mates at the homeless shelter or something? Or are some of these women just in the mindset that they just need to secure a partner via marriage and/or breeding and they're set for life? That sounds good on paper, but if the man you allow to impregnate you sucks, being set for life has a whole new meaning and it's not a good one.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices January 25, 2021 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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Cambion
And why so so many of these women have precisely nothing going for them? No savings, no education (either standard or secondary), no job skills, no skills in general, nothing at all. Like were their husbands shopping for mates at the homeless shelter or something? Or are some of these women just in the mindset that they just need to secure a partner via marriage and/or breeding and they're set for life? That sounds good on paper, but if the man you allow to impregnate you sucks, being set for life has a whole new meaning and it's not a good one.
God some people are stupid. I know I'm dense and have the world's shortest attention span, but women like this make me feel like an Ivy League graduate.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices January 25, 2021 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,122 |
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freya
Mental dry heaving...you are a poet with words Cambion. You could author your own Urban Dictionary!
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LoveToLurk
He wasn’t shopping at the homeless shelter, but I would bet dollars to donuts he WAS shopping for some brainless, spineless woman who would let him be his domineering self. Men like that loathe women with confidence and the ability to think for themselves, because they know that said women will have no problem telling them to F off.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices January 25, 2021 | Registered: 8 years ago Posts: 309 |
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices January 26, 2021 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,122 |
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Dude, I literally savored getting a cavity filled last month. Some novocaine, a little laughing gas, no one talking to me/needing me for 45 minutes. It was freaking bliss.
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I still fondly refer to my 4 days in the hospital with pneumonia 3 years ago as my best vacation ever. All alone, no one to take care of, no decisions to make, tv to myself, meals prepared, AND encouraged to nap? Chhhhild. Pure bliss, minus the whole can’t breathe thing.
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My last c section was my last real “break” in five years. I only had a newborn and major surgery to recover from but didn’t have to cook or clean or take care of twin toddlers/step kids/husband. I applied for jobs and had an interview lined up by the time I was discharged. Reading this back it’s pretty sad but I’m sure many can relate.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices January 26, 2021 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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Cambion
Moos waxing poetic about how they see hospital stays as awesome vacations from their shit home lives. Not the first time I've seen this kind of thing on there. Can you imagine your life sucking that bad that being hospitalized for pneumonia is on par with a trip to Hawaii?
Apparently such things are awesome to Moos because there are no brats pestering them all day, no useless spouses not pulling their weight and/or fucking things up, the Moos can nap and have the TV to themselves and someone makes food for them, after which they don't need to be responsible for the dishes or any other cleaning, for that matter. The original post is nothing dramatic or juicy, but it's in the comments you'll find the real gold.
I've only had to stay in the hospital overnight once at this point and it was fucking MISERABLE, and I didn't even have anything particularly major or invasive done - just kept for observation and given fluids and IV antibiotics. Your life has to be a real grade A shit show for a stint in the hospital to feel like a vacation.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices January 27, 2021 | Registered: 4 years ago Posts: 202 |
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices January 27, 2021 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,122 |
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freya
I wonder if this is why the lifestyle of a childfree person is often seen as one of absolute irresponsibility and debauchery with personal garments being flung around the room from the ceiling fan? Once they breed all they can remember is a shadow of their former selves and they like to imagine it this way because in comparison to their lives now, it pretty much is. They'd probably salivate at being left alone to watch paint dry at this point.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices January 28, 2021 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,122 |
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There's no way to win if you are a mom. If you have any feelings at all that aren't "Omigoshmykidsareamazingallthetimemylifeisgreat!" then you hear "why did you have kids in the first place?" or "it was your choice..."
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Or the ones who say "you chose to have kids" anytime you dare complain about anything. By that reasoning you can't moan about your job but you can bet everyone does that! Does everyone who hates kids forget that we were all kids once?
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I hate this internet culture of shaming mothers. You see a video of a mom trying to enjoy something, say...she just made some brownies and wanted to take a picture for the gram, and when she goes to grab her phone, her kiddos go in and put their damn hands in it, so she gets sad... and she posts that picture with "Well, I guess I can't enjoy anything.... and it goes viral as people shame her for expecting that her kids should be normal humans and not put their hands in the brownies.
We have feelings too and sometimes our kids just ruin everything. We're not saying it's their fault. We just feel sad that these beautiful brownies we made are completely ruined with finger marks.
Or a door cam video of a mom who is trying to get her kids in the car goes viral. Mom looks dressed up ready for possibly date night, she could be taking kiddos to the babysitter and one of the kids decides to squeeze the living hell out of their juice box, getting apple and eve all over mom, and mom just puts kid down on the ground and goes inside all defeated and people are like, "well she shouldn't have given the kid a juice box. If she had a brain she'd have expected her nice blouse to be ruined." Or "don't feel bad, you asked for this when you had kids."
Like...wtf is wrong with people? We have feelings too. Sometimes we get ready to have a nice cup of coffee to ourselves but then our kid is all like "mama! Hold me!." And while you're cuddling your little one, they keep trying to take your cup, or put their fingers in the steaming liquid, so you're forced to drink it at a weird angle while your kid screams in your ear because you won't let them have the magical mommy drink. And you just feel so sad ...so you go online and complain but people just make you feel like shit.
Buuuuuuuuuut if dad was in these situations? "Aw that's so sweet you made brownies! Sorry the kiddos ruined it." "Lmao why can't mom out her in her carseat?!?" "Awww I'm sorry you can't drink your coffee without your baby screaming to have it. Just give him to mom!"
Ugh fuck the internet and people who shame us moms for fucking feeling. Mom guilt is a thing and people who do shit like this aren't helping.
I'm just grateful for subs like this and I love you all. The mods on this sub are pretty awesome people too for making sure the rules are followed. No shaming, don't be a jerk, love and support....I couldn't be more thankful for people like y'all.
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she hits me with the, "nobody forced you to be a mom, you chose this for yourself!" Well listen you cunt, nobody forced you to be a grandma, feel free to fuck all the way off and not step foot in my house again.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices January 28, 2021 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,257 |
QuoteI hate this internet culture of shaming mothers. You see a video of a mom trying to enjoy something, say...she just made some brownies and wanted to take a picture for the gram, and when she goes to grab her phone, her kiddos go in and put their damn hands in it, so she gets sad... and she posts that picture with "Well, I guess I can't enjoy anything.... and it goes viral as people shame her for expecting that her kids should be normal humans and not put their hands in the brownies.
We have feelings too and sometimes our kids just ruin everything. We're not saying it's their fault. We just feel sad that these beautiful brownies we made are completely ruined with finger marks.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices January 28, 2021 | Registered: 4 years ago Posts: 202 |
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bell_flower
As an aside, this is an example of how most Moos are raising kids who behave like apes. Grabbing at food without asking? Being allowed to mess up community food? It never would have happened in the house where I grew up. My mom was actually a parent who watched her kids like a hawk and instilled boundaries. I knew at an early age not to go grab shit that didn't belong to me. There were standard parunting mantras in the 60's and they worked. "Look with your eyes." "Look but don't touch." "Ask if you want something." Not to mention: "WASH YOUR HANDS." or "Let me wipe your face." My mom had ZERO tolerance for sticky children putting dirty hands over everything. We had our own toys and things we could play with and treat roughly but that was it. It can be done.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices January 28, 2021 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,122 |
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bell_flower
As an aside, this is an example of how most Moos are raising kids who behave like apes. Grabbing at food without asking? Being allowed to mess up community food? It never would have happened in the house where I grew up.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices January 29, 2021 | Registered: 5 years ago Posts: 108 |
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Spineless VictiMoo
When I told my partner I didn't want any more children he literally punched a hole in the wall of our apartment. I'm not naive in that I understand this behavior will most likely escalate but I have no support system outside of my partner.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices January 29, 2021 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,257 |
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That's insane, and I don't understand it. Besides, psycho-duh being absent so much "for work", that clearly translates to me, that he most likely gets some on the side too. Lovely.
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I guess I'm also just too dense to understand, how these kind of women can live with themselves, with no education and no own income. How can they bear being this dependant? Basically a playball to a guy?
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices January 29, 2021 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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bell_flower
Drifting, but this is why it infuriates me that the government is so stingy with benefits and job training for single people. Help them become independent before they sprog. Thanks to the kids, this woman doesn't have a shot at becoming independent or a productive member of society.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices January 29, 2021 | Registered: 16 years ago Posts: 1,998 |
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Woe is me moo
Or the ones who say "you chose to have kids" anytime you dare complain about anything. By that reasoning you can't moan about your job but you can bet everyone does that! Does everyone who hates kids forget that we were all kids once?
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices January 29, 2021 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,765 |
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Woe is me moo
Or the ones who say "you chose to have kids" anytime you dare complain about anything. By that reasoning you can't moan about your job but you can bet everyone does that! Does everyone who hates kids forget that we were all kids once?
Im going to guess this Moo is one of those that is constantly trumpeting the agenda that having kids is the bestest thing in the world and everyone should do it, which is why she experiences pushback. I have friends that bitch about their kids and I’m perfectly fine lending them my ear, because they’re not constantly trying to blow smoke up my ass about how I’m missing out on life because I didn’t have kids.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices January 30, 2021 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 21 |
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Woe is me moo
Or the ones who say "you chose to have kids" anytime you dare complain about anything. By that reasoning you can't moan about your job but you can bet everyone does that! Does everyone who hates kids forget that we were all kids once?
At least saying "you chose to have kids" is an actual statement that has validity.
Yup! And that moo's comparison to people "moaning" about their jobs is ignorant as fuck! People NEED jobs, nobody NEEDS to have a goddamn kid!
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices January 30, 2021 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,122 |
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LoveToLurk
Im going to guess this Moo is one of those that is constantly trumpeting the agenda that having kids is the bestest thing in the world and everyone should do it, which is why she experiences pushback. I have friends that bitch about their kids and I’m perfectly fine lending them my ear, because they’re not constantly trying to blow smoke up my ass about how I’m missing out on life because I didn’t have kids.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices February 02, 2021 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,122 |
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Idjit
My first two were planned, just about three years apart. My doctors are fucking morons and aggressively marketed the minipill to me while very explicitly telling me it had placebos just like my old bc that could be skipped seven days in a row. I googled the minipill, but without particularly questioning the part about placebos, I didn't have specific enough search terms to tip me off.
So six months after my second child was born, I was pregnant. We found out in February and decided to go ahead and have three kids. The pandemic starts and everything is crap, but surely it'll be over by the time the baby is born (haha). Then comes May, and an ultrasound shows my baby has gastroschisis, intestines on the outside. He needs surgery and about a month of nicu time. 10% fatality rate that worsens with prematurity. 32 weeks, what happens? His bowel is dilating so fast that they have to take him stat. He survives and is strong, but his bowel is so damaged that one surgery and one month became two surgeries and 96 days, all during Covid. The restrictions alone made me feel like I was suffocating.
Finally, he came home in mid-December. I was so happy. I couldn't imagine that the stress of three kids could get to me after all that.
I was dead wrong, of course. Holy fucking Christ, my 18mo is in the most intense toddler suicide phase I've ever seen (she's actually ATTRACTED to moving cars, rivers, and kids on swings!!!) and it's like a ten person job JUST to handle just that one kid. Meanwhile, the new baby has complicated intestines and I basically have to burp him all day. Not kidding. Just burping this kid constantly, all day, two hands, no time for anything else. So what about that other kid who's trying to do a cannonball onto a knife block? Uhh, I honestly don't know.
And then there's my poor 4yo. There was supposed to be so much more to being the big sister than just getting zero attention and sitting around listening to babies cry. She was supposed to be in preschool four days a week, gymnastics, music class, play dates (she even had honest to god friends for like .5 seconds last year). She's acting out for attention and I don't blame her at all. I already am not enough for even one of these kids, let alone three.
And the worst part is, as much as I love my son the same as my daughters, I'm so stressed out that this thought keeps creeping in that I didn't want this. I was screwed over by my idiot doctors (and it was far from the first time). We weren't going to have a third for five years. I just keep thinking, God damnit, this wasn't supposed to happen. None of this was supposed to happen. Society wasn't supposed to implode and my life wasn't supposed to implode.
Anyway I feel like the worst mom ever today. I miss when I was happy and enthusiastic about parenting. I'm afraid it will never be fun again.
TL;DR: Got bad medical advice about my birth control, had unplanned baby with a stressful birth defect, long nicu stay, pandemic, three kids (2 under 2 and a 4yo), totally cracking
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices February 02, 2021 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 1,861 |