Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices February 22, 2024 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,179 |
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This might be controversial. It might even be like - “yeah duh”. But I’ve come to realize that choosing to have a child is a very very selfish decision. Hear me out.
When I thought about having children, I only really thought about what having that child would do for me. I wanted a family. I wanted the family I never had. I wanted to love that child like I had never been loved. Even though my intentions were not selfish, my motive was.
The empty feelings I had directed me into a relationship with a man who I should never had a child with.
My son is 6.5 now and it’s not at all what I imagined. And it’s that way because I was coming at it from a place of what I felt I needed when I was raised. He’s his own person who doesn’t necessarily care to be loved that way. I spent a few years being resentful and hating motherhood. And now I realize why.
He’s a literal whole separate human being. And yes of course, logically I always knew he would be. But also, deep down, I didn’t really.
I’ve had to realign my expectations and fully realize that I’m raising a person who has completely different needs than I did and is going to live their own life. That was hard and not something I could have fathomed before having a child.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices February 22, 2024 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,808 |
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get a load of this guy:Quote
My husband and I both work full time. He makes significantly more money than I do. He feels that because he brings in more money and pays our mortgage and taxes that I should be responsible for all of the house hold chores.
I do all of the laundry, cooking, cleaning, errands and kid care. He does snow blow the driveway and mows the lawn ( I do take lawn mowing shifts too). I truly appreciate that our mortgage and taxes are taking care of, but keeping up with everything while working full time is overwhelming and I'm often exhausted and fall behind. When I do fall behind I'm met with comments from him like, "Maybe I should pay the mortgage as timely as you do the laundry" or that I take everything for granted and he can't count on me to get things done. He rarely picks up after himself and is reluctant to throw old things out. Am, I wrong for thinking that this isn't how a healthy marriage works? It's no longer 1950, I can't do this all on my own. If I didn't work full time than yes, I can see most of these tasks falling on me. Thank you for reading.
Sounds like a real prince.
https://www.reddit.com/r/amiwrong/comments/1at0sgr/spilting_household_chores/
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices February 24, 2024 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,302 |
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“I've been extremely reluctant to post my story here because of the extreme guilt I've felt saying to myself out loud "I regret having kids", but here goes....
I married my wife after being with her for 5 years and even after we were married, we couldn't keep our hands off each other. She was very aware my previous relationship failed due to lack of intimacy and assured me that would never happen with us because she had a very high sex drive.
A year after marriage we decided to have our first child. The moment she got pregnant, our sex life came to screeching halt. I was told by her doctor that a couples sex life could go either way during a pregnancy, she may want it constantly or not at all. It ended up being the latter but said to myself it's just 9 months, suck it up and things will go back to normal. Unfortunately they didn't. It was another 11 months after our child's birth before we starting having sex again and even then, it was only happening once every 2-3 weeks. As time progressed over the next year, our sex life very slowly began to improve and we were up to once a week.
She then asked me if we could begin trying for our second child. I told her ok but on the condition that our sex life doesn't go down the toilet the way it did the last time and she promised me that would definitely not happen again. So we began trying, so much so that every day I got home from work, she was waiting for me in the bedroom and didn't want to waste any time "getting busy". Within a month she was pregnant again and we couldn't have been happier. That is, until the same pattern began again as it did when she got pregnant with our first child, onlt this time I couldn't have imagined or prepared myself for what was to about to come.
The next 11 years would be some of the worst of my life. Within 3 months of bringing home our second(and third, we had twins btw), they were always brought in to our bed to sleep. No matter how much I fought her on it, she insisted on them sleeping in our bed because it was easier and they wouldn't cry constantly. This left use (sic) zero chance of intimacy. I eventually began sleeping in the spare room(which was suppose to be the kids room). We've had sex once since she last got pregnant. Any time I've tried to bring up our sex life, it's caused a fight and she's often used the argument that that's all I ever care about.
My oldest sleeps in his room and my twins(almost 11) still sleep in my bed with my wife. Through half these years I turned to cocaine to help me cope with the lack of intimacy and obviously it just created more problems but it was my only escape from the reality I was in.
I do love my kids very much but I look at them with a little resentment even though I know I shouldn't. Ive gonna through my entire 30s in a sexless marriage, my wife hasn't even kissed me in at least 2 years. I work to far too much to be able to go to counseling, I'm too broke to be able to even consider divorce. I feel like I'm basically in prison and often think this never would've happened if I didn't have kids. I apologize if I sounded like selfish or terrible person”.
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Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 02, 2024 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,302 |
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[Looking for help outside of FL] I am 44, going through divorce, and trying to use MY frozen eggs to make an embryo with SO
I live in Florida and left my marriage two years ago at 42. Last year, I went through two egg freezing cycles and got 7 eggs with the hope of having a child with my SO. The IVF clinic refused to use his sperm until the divorce is finalized, so I froze all the eggs. My ex is a control freak and is dragging the divorce on as long as possible, but I am now 44 and furious that I have no autonomy over my own damn eggs. Unfortunately, the law here in Florida says that if I somehow am successful in creating an embryo, even if it isn't his sperm, the child would be considered his.
I love my gynecologist, and she mentioned on my last visit that we don't have to stay in Florida, a thought I hadn't even considered before. So now I am looking for a state that will allow me to try for an embryo with my frozen eggs and SO's sperm. It seems so archaic to even have to ask for such a thing, as if my genetic material is my ex's property.
I've tried Googling for help, but keep getting information about surrogacy/egg donor laws, or laws about existing embryos. If anyone has any information about states that might have more modern laws that allow women to do what they want with their own eggs, please let me know!
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 02, 2024 | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 2,731 |
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Tell me your life is a mess without telling me your life is a mess. From Family Law:Quote
[Looking for help outside of FL] I am 44, going through divorce, and trying to use MY frozen eggs to make an embryo with SO
I live in Florida and left my marriage two years ago at 42. Last year, I went through two egg freezing cycles and got 7 eggs with the hope of having a child with my SO. The IVF clinic refused to use his sperm until the divorce is finalized, so I froze all the eggs. My ex is a control freak and is dragging the divorce on as long as possible, but I am now 44 and furious that I have no autonomy over my own damn eggs. Unfortunately, the law here in Florida says that if I somehow am successful in creating an embryo, even if it isn't his sperm, the child would be considered his.
I love my gynecologist, and she mentioned on my last visit that we don't have to stay in Florida, a thought I hadn't even considered before. So now I am looking for a state that will allow me to try for an embryo with my frozen eggs and SO's sperm. It seems so archaic to even have to ask for such a thing, as if my genetic material is my ex's property.
I've tried Googling for help, but keep getting information about surrogacy/egg donor laws, or laws about existing embryos. If anyone has any information about states that might have more modern laws that allow women to do what they want with their own eggs, please let me know!
So her STBX may be a "control freak" but I cannot blame him for not wanting her to get knocked up with a child that he'll be on the hook to support.
Good on the IVF clinic for checking her legal status. I think it's kind of funny actually--another conservative principle is biting one of these WannaBreeds in the ass.
Jeez, where are these idiots getting all this money? And she's 44 years old--just ugh.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FamilyLaw/comments/1b480j3/looking_for_help_outside_of_fl_i_am_44_going/
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Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 04, 2024 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,302 |
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Couldn't the divorcing dude "control freak" demand a DNA test to show the kid isn't his, or does Florida not care who the bio father is--if a child is born to a still-married couple, the male's name goes on the birth certificate as "father"? Wow.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 06, 2024 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,302 |
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I seriously don’t understand how people with babies & young children get through this period. I was talking to my best friend last night who is a mom of a 5 year old & is currently trying to have another baby at 46. She was breaking down about how badly her child wants a sibling but she is exhausted & goes in the bathroom to cry constantly.
She has gone through multiple rounds of IVF & I sat there feeling so terrible for her as she cried about the side effects. Her husband is pressuring her too. I couldn’t even imagine having a baby right now. What bothered me the most about our conversation, is she seems to be doing this for her child & her husband. Her poor body is tired from all the IVF.
I want to support her, but I feel like I can’t give my honest opinion. I offered to babysit so she could get some time to herself but I don’t really know what else I can do. She’s a few hours away so I can’t just stop by with food or coffee. Any suggestions on how to support her?
All of our symptoms seem to be similar & I couldn’t in a million years imagine adding a baby on top of it.
Edited to add: She is also caring for her ailing mother & recently moved her into her home. She is also the breadwinner in the family & is stressed about that as well.
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Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 11, 2024 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,808 |
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And look at that, another "I love my kids, but wish I never had them" person. It's been said many times, but those two things do not go together. If you love your kids, you do not resent them or wish they were never born. It doesn't work like that.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 11, 2024 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,808 |
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I have noticed that so many BreakingMoo posts are really to do with spouse and almost none have to do with child or childrearing. That's odd that they come to BreakingMoo then. Why not just go to relationships sub or wherever? Somehow they must notice how spouse and life and conflict solving has changed their relationships for the worse once they reproduce. They might notice but never admit. So I wonder why they come to BreakingMoo. Do they only see themselves as a Moo in distress instead of a wife/partner in distress?
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More proof that the Reddit menopause forum is full of idiots or idiots by proxy.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 12, 2024 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,179 |
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I have noticed that so many BreakingMoo posts are really to do with spouse and almost none have to do with child or childrearing. That's odd that they come to BreakingMoo then. Why not just go to relationships sub or wherever? Somehow they must notice how spouse and life and conflict solving has changed their relationships for the worse once they reproduce. They might notice but never admit. So I wonder why they come to BreakingMoo. Do they only see themselves as a Moo in distress instead of a wife/partner in distress?
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Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 14, 2024 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,808 |
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What, no request for Kalamata olives?!
Edit: Wish I could be surprised by the audacity of someone demanding (presumably free, since money wasn't mentioned) salon services on a timeline, but I'm not.
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Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 15, 2024 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 10,179 |
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(Title says the brat threw a cup at Moo's head and then headbutted her) If it was my partner I'd have called the police and chuck him out for good, but because she came out of me I just have to tuck her in and read her a bedtime story?
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Having a toddler is a lot like having an abusive alcoholic husband