Today, my husband and I told my parents that I finally managed to conceive. My mom burst into tears of joy and said how great it was that she's finally going to be a "real" grandma, all within earshot of our adopted and now-devastated daughter. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I overheard my mother-in-law say to her daughter "I can't wait for you to make me a real grandma." I'm pregnant with their first grandchild. FML
Today, I finally decided to tell my mother, a former Miss North Carolina winner, that I was several weeks pregnant. She immediately burst into tears and hugged me. She kept saying, "Thank god, thank god." At first I was relieved. Then she said, "I thought you were just getting fat." FML
Today, at a family reunion, my dad announced to everyone that I'd finally started my menstrual cycle. My grandmother started sobbing hysterically. FML
Today, my mom told me that she had great news: we were going to meet my biological parents. I didn't know I was adopted. FML
Today, my daughter and her boyfriend excitedly told me that after months of trying they are finally pregnant and that I'm going to be a grandmother. This would be great news if they weren't 15. FML
Today, my girlfriend and I broke the news to my parents that we're having a baby. The first words out of my dad's mouth were, "It's probably not yours." FML
Today, I was told by my wife that we were going to be parents. We are both females. FML
Today, my son had a child to spite his ex and ex-stepson. He was holding his daughter in his arms in the delivery room when he told me that now I can stop visiting his ex-stepson and pretending he’s my real grandchild, because now I have a real granddaughter. I’m speechless. FML
Today, after years of trying, I got the wonderful news that my husband is going to be a father. Too bad I’m not the mother. FML
Today, my daughter announced that she's pregnant. I'm going to be a 37 year-old grandmother. FML
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Top comments
ZelmaSlayer 30
Your daughter should cheer up! You can't choose your mother but she was chosen by you :)
isabelf 17
Some people can't keep their mouths shut.
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LeviathansGirl89 1
Your mum is a bitch. An adopted child is just as much family as a bio one. Adopted children have enough issues of believing their bio parents did not love them without having to think their adopted grandparents don't too. Protect your daughter and get that poisonous person out of your life.
FriedVanilla 1
What an absolutely horrible thing for her to say. She should be ashamed.
corgigirl 5
We adopted both our kids, and thankfully they've never had to deal with that. My father, who was spotted, was treated that way indirectly by his spruce mother after they had his little sister.
OpposingKilljoy 14
You should tell the baby that grandma is not their real grandma and that she was adopted
princessplatinum 8
Your poor daughter! She deserves better grandparents. She was born out of the love you wanted to give her, and that makes her just as special as a baby conceived naturally. Good luck with your family!
maliadiva11 21
adoption is awesome. my boyfriend is from Indiana and now lives in California of he wasn't adopted we would have never met
withasmile 3
I would cut ties with her and make sure my daughter knows I don't find her statements at all acceptable and give her plenty of reassurance that I love her the same. Because she will certainly always wonder and doubt. I'm adopted, and have 2 sisters who are not and always felt 'different' even though no one ever said anything of the sort. If my loving family failed to prevent my worrying over this, I can't even imagine what your daughter is thinking. So thoughtless and harmful for her to say!
trumpy 9
oh my, thats awful..poor little girl
Catto-Golden 23
This is bullshit. My boyfriend and I, who are gay, want a child when we're older, but his mom says adopted children don't count and is pressuring him to get a biological child