Dealing with Friends Who Don't Get It...(long vent)
Anyone else have friends that just don't get the struggle of ttc? That say hurtful stuff and you're not sure if they did it intentionally or not?
I have a friend who I've been really close to since right before I got pregnant with my first child. She missed a lot of the struggle we had to conceive (took us over a year) so she didn't really get to hear the venting especially every time I saw someone announce they were pregnant.
Last April her and her husband decided to try for a baby and got pregnant the first try but didn't find out for about 2 or 3 months. I was one of the first people she told and when I told her we had started trying again she got excited that we had been trying and thought we could have our kids close in age. I didn't tell her we had been trying for a year at that point though.
She's due to be induced tomorrow morning and lately I've been trying to lose weight to get myself back to a healthier size and hopefully that will increase our chances since we are a few months away from 2 years of trying. I mentioned that I had hit my calorie intake earlier in the day than I ment and she freaks out on me about how I don't have healthy eating habits if I'm not eating 7 small meals a day (I usually have 5-6 small meals spread through the day to keep me in my calorie range I need to be) and then goes on to say that the way I eat is probably why I can't get pregnant. I instantly stopped talking to her and now I'm sobbing and stress eating chicken nuggets, calories be damned...
I know it might seem sensitive but it felt to me like she was blaming me for not being able to conceive and it was like a knife to my chest from someone who didn't have to wait at all to get pregnant.
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