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TTC - To Say or Say Not?
While Trying to Conceive, have you found others (even people you barely know) asking prying questions or offering unsolicited advice? Do you think they mean well and just don't think, or are they being meddling and/or on the rude side? Do you respond, ignore it, brew over it all night...?

ttc w/out family support?

Posted by: dvinemrsshay on Thu Aug 6, 2009
I'm so wanting to tell my family about my TTC for baby #2 plans, but I have a brother with two young children (under the age of 4) and they're good, but not such attentive parents, and they're under a lot of financial strain right now; which I think reflects poorly with my mother. She's really negative when it comes to us starting families and is full of advice...I'm sure she means well, but it comes off as though she thinks we don't know what we're doing, or that we are incapable of raising our children, or making it like she did (she was a single parent of 4)...I cut her a lot of slack because she did it on her own, and I know that everything she says is from a place of love and support, I'm just not sure she knows how to give that support without being harsh and brash. Every time I say something about us having another child she lets out this loud sigh and says something like "you guys and these children, can't you just wait?" And I'm like I'm married, almost 27, my husband is 37 and we want to have my children now...we don't rely on anyone for financial help, and we have our own place and my husband makes decent money. I feel like that should be my choice without having it questioned or commented upon, because it's something that we are overjoyed about...but it's a damper, and it hurts my feelings.
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