How do y’all tune out everyone else?! Might be long. Sorry y’all lol
Listen. For the most part I can ignore a lot of bull crap. I really can.
Today on Facebook I shared an article penned by a mom who regrets telling people the name she had chosen for her son because the unwanted opinions were hurtful and mean.
Now a little back story for this post;
My daughter is due March 13th. I haven’t posted her name ANYWHERE (other than in glow lol) for the SAME reason. When we first learned she was a girl my husband and I were bouncing around a few names we liked w my sister and my mom. My mom is a saint and never ever makes me feel like my choices as a mom, be it names or whatever, were stupid. MY SISTER however has no problem shouting her opinions at me and then gets all offended when I tell her mind her own.
We’ve decided to name our sweet girl Landyn Kate. Once we told my sister and mom my sister of course had to tell me how awful landyn is for a name and how she will only call her Kate bc that’s what she likes. 🙄🙄 still to this day she make the comment and refers to my daughter as Kate. (Now it’s more of a joke so it doesn’t bother me as much)
My sister has two kids. My nephew who is five and my niece who is two. My niece is named Kylie Beth. And when my sister was pregnant I HATED the name Kylie. All I could think of is Kylie Jenner and really I told my husband that I would call her KB or just Beth. Obviously I didn’t. And I never told my sister how I felt about the name she chose simply bc 1) it’s not my kid? Not my place and 2) I knew once she was born if she was anything other than Kylie her name just wouldn’t fit her (that’s 10000% correct. Kylie is Kylie lol)
My sister had all of two people bring up that they weren’t fans of the name she had chosen and she flew off the handles. Even blocked them on Facebook 🙄 she’s dramatic. Has been our whole lives.
Now back to the reason I’m posting. I’m sorry it’s so long.
I shared the article. She comments “omg get out of here w that crap 🙄😂” I responded w 🤷🏻♀️. She then responds saying “ps don’t ever come to me for parenting advice. Ever.” Like what? It just really ticked me off.
She’s almost two years younger than I am. This is my first baby. She seems to think that she knows everything and I’m totally clueless. She makes comments on everything from her name. To her nursery. To my choice to bottle feed. I can’t breastfeed( another story for another day.
) lol. She didn’t breastfeed either. But because I brought up maybe attempting to pump and freeze milk for down the road when she’s sick etc. if I’m able to. Her words were “omg Allison that’s so ignorant. Just take her to the freaking doctor” y’all I can’t win. And she doesn’t just drop it either. It’s every time we see each other.
Usually I have no problem ignoring her at all. This is just how she is about things. She isn’t evil or really a bad person. We have a great relationship other than stuff like this 🙄 I wish I could just not be bothered but that’s just not who I am. I’ve been compared to her my entire life and it just sucks that now even though we are both adults she still acts like this and I end up questioning myself and everything else.
How would y’all handle this? How do you ignore it? If you read all this bless your souls. I know it’s long. Thank you ❤️
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