Lovely birthday. Not.
So I turned 26 today. And my mum and sister have been here for the past 2 days visiting me from Sweden. (I live in the UK since 8 months). I wanted to go to Manchester today for my birthday and show them how beautiful it is there, show off like the cathedral etc. I'm 23 weeks pregnant and I have SPD. Which they know of. My partner also struggles to walk longer distances due to a knee injury from an accident. We were fine with having them go nuts for an hour or so at Primark, a cheap store with clothes etc while we had a coffee. But then they just kept on wanting to go to other stores, and kept rushing ahead (mind you they've never been to England and are not used to cars driving on wrong side of road.) after a good 3 hours of them just not asking us what we wanted to do, they said they'd just be going to these final stores and then we could go to the restaurant. We thought it'd take 10 minutes so fine, we'll sit on a bench here on the street. 20 min later I tried texting and calling them, no response. 40 minutes later they came out. How are you? Mother asked. Through gritted teeth trying not to cry of anger and disappointment I said I'm in pain and I'm hungry. Oh so sorry it was bigger than I thought.. I'm really sorry... not one time did any of them ask me how I was doing or how I felt. Or what I wanted to do on my birthday. When we got to the restaurant I even had to ask my sister twice to put her phone away, much to her dismay as she sat sighing away the entire dinner, refusing to talk and just looking at her food. Mom was ashamed and tried her best to talk too. We've been trying to converse with them for 3 days with no success. Always just phones in their faces. Nice spent money mother, coming to England, convincing us that we're here to see YOU. Well you've seen your screen and the cash register at the stores you went through. The only ones that were being considerate of me today was my partner and the woman in the toilet queue at Primark who told me to go ahead of her and the 4 others and pee. I'm so disappointed and sad.
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