Should this be the reason?
I have a friend who wants a baby. Her reasons are that she thinks it will fix her depression and make her boyfriend more responsible and move their relationship faster. She wants them to move in together but they live an hour apart and can’t decide where to move. He doesn’t want to leave his moms because she caters to him. She doesn’t want to leave her dads because he has dementia and she is his care giver. She thinks she can make him move to her if she’s pregnant. She isn’t planning to tell him any of this until it happens though, so he can’t say he isn’t ready. She says she doesn’t want to get too old (we are 23, he is 26).
I’m worried about her stress and depression she already has being heightened by the stress of a newborn. There’s no guarantee he will move with her. He’s very childish and his mom cares for him like a child. (We all went on vacation together and her bf left all his dishes on the table at every meal. My 4 year old can put his dishes in the sink himself 🙄)
Am I wrong for telling her this isn’t the reason to get pregnant?
Also I know I broke the rules but this is the most popular room and I need quick answers, she asked me to post this to get other opinions so I’ll delete it later, I’m sorry don’t hate me
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. For saying exactly what I was. She SAW my experience. I got pregnant at 18 and found myself a single mom TWICE and have gotten to a good place in my relationship with my boyfriend/kids’ dad (we have a second now, we were solid before baby umber 2). But for 4 years, we were rocky. Before ever having a baby. She saw the stress it put on me to care for a baby and a man who wanted to live with no responsibility, and how bad the stress broke me. But she said “you guys are okay now tho so we could be to” but y’all if I could do it all over, it might’ve been different. I hate she’s putting herself in the same situation I was in by accident
Achieve your health goals from period to parenting.