My friend says I’m trying to trap my husband...
My husband and I already have one child together and while we’d love another we’re not thinking about it until another year or so. I use FAM to avoid pregnancy but some months we slack at fully preventing, it’s nothing with the method we just get lazy or stuck in the moment and forget it’s condom or withdrawal time. While a child isn’t fully wanted right now my husband and I agreed it wouldn’t be the end of the world if we had another one, so that kind of causes my laziness or not being as firm on protection. This month we pretty much hit all the days that we shouldn’t have been having sex and now we’re both a bit nervous for my obgyn appointment Friday (just my yearly). Well i confided in my friend about it and she accused me of trying to trap my husband and how I should be doing better to not bring a unwanted child into our lives because it’ll end our marriage, she called me dumb and a few other things. Now I’m feeling guilty about it, my husband knows when I become fertile (track using CM), when my cervix is opened and high, when I get a positive ovulation test, and when my temp spikes; it’s not like I’m withholding information, I just forget to remind him before or during sex sometimes because its spontaneous and catch me off guard or I just get in the moment and let it slip my mine.
Edit to add: for the comment saying it’s suspicious what I’m doing, FAM is the fertility awareness method, I avoid pregnancy by practicing safe sex or abstinence during my fertility window and I learn when I’m fertile by tracking CM, cervix position, LH, and basal body temp. Most months my husband and I are perfect at avoiding but sometimes months we fall short because yes we’re not too worried about the what if’s of pregnancy like we were 3 years ago when I started FAM. I never withhold any information from my husband and when I realize we had an oops I tell him right away. I’m also not the only one who forgets I’m in my fertility window sometimes, he does the same thing as well and has even reminded me a few times when I forgot. This is only our second pregnancy worry the whole 3 years we’ve been using FAM
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