Do parents REALLY love their kids equally?

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I have a beautiful baby girl who I adore to pieces.. I’m completely convinced I shouldn’t have anymore kids because i just won’t be able to love them as much as my daughter.. is this a normal feeling or am i just crazy

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Well there are going to be outlier situations where a parent generally resents one child over another. I feel like there are days where parents have more preference over one child on a day by day basis based on how they behave, but I don't feel like this means they don't love them equally. Parents aren't perfect.

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I do. I love my two girls equally but in different ways because they are two different individuals with different personalities. I have a unique bond with each of them. I don’t love one more than the other. Never will. If I have another baby, he/she will be loved equally as well.

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Different kind of loves. One might be a brat and one and angel but you’ll love them equally, you’d die for both of them.

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I love both my kids equally, but most days I like one more than the other 🤷🏼‍♀️

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My mom phrased it very nicely (I have two brothers): "I love you all equally, but I don't always like you the same" (this was a conversation between her and me a couple of years ago, when I asked her about it).

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I'm sure parents do love children equally but can still treat them differently. I know I sure as hell wasn't allowed to get away with half the stuff my sisters did, which led me to my rebellious stage. 
Like I love all my animals equally but my Mandy- Moo has a special place in my heart.
I mean for example, my mom would always buy my younger sister a gift on MY birthday because she didn't want her to feel left out, but myself and my older sister never got anything in each other's birthdays.
My older sister once came home at 23:00 on a school night with zero notice and nothing happened to her, but I was half an hour late for my 22:00 curfew on a Saturday and my mom grounded me for six months.
But I have no doubts my mom loves me as much as my sisters though. I think I reminded her very much of my dad (they had a terrible divorce) and it was hard for her to see me as my own person (I look exactly like my dad, and I act like him and think like him, etc).

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Just image your daughter when she was a newborn baby and how much you loved her, now image you have her as a newborn and how she is now at the same time. It’s that. I just had my second baby and YES your heart does have room for another complete love! It expands, there’s no limit. :)

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I feel like my mother loves my brother more than me :,)

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I do. Love grows. More children just means more love. My boys are my world. I love them all fiercely.

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My daughter was a great baby and toddler and my son is very whiny, doesn’t sleep and doesn’t have the same early sense of awareness and speaking as my daughter so on the one hand he infuriates and frustrates me to no end. 
On the other hand, he is my cuddly baby and is more more physically affectionate than my daughter so I feel that he somehow needs me more than she did and he prefers me to anyone. He also has the most outstanding baby smell. My husband and I joke that because he’s so bad he sends out his delicious baby pheromones to keep us from tossing him.
I love them both but in different ways, but my love is very fierce and protective in both.

Do parents REALLY love their kids equally?

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