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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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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Comments (164)
hbs11476 9
What a horrible thing for her to say. I hope you corrected her loudly enough for your daughter to hear.
GrumpyGrinch 23
Adoption is as strong relation as birth. Weather your Mom likes it or not, adopted daughter is a true relative of every member of the family, not just you and your husband, but both grandma's, granddads, all cousins, aunts, uncles etc. etc. Actually apart from Mom being rude, there is nothing to "FML" about: you have your daughter and husband, she has you and dad, you all are going to have one more family member, all good. And quite often it happens that a late baby kinda opens the flood gate and more keep coming (after decades of unsuccessful trying).
MassiDelta 28
Congrats to you, but I feel that this is an FML for your sister
MassiDelta 28
*daughter* sorry
NellieeNell 18
This is really an FML for your daughter. Poor thing
Astrobomb 21
That poor girl. :(
saffy66 34
Yep. Nothing like being adopted and having relatives dismiss you because you 'don't count'. I feel your daughter's pain, OP.
chuchusheep 19
oh my goodness thats awful! i have a daughter to another man and when my husband and i got pregnant i was so scared my mother-in-law would love the blood granddaughter more. she totally loves them the same. maybe your mom just was excited and not thinking. not thinking at all. poor kid.
backdoorman010 9
wow even I have to say that's ******. atleast say it in private and not in front of the kid. wow
pinkgirl2 6
Oh I am so sorry OP. I have a sister that is adopted and for us there is no difference, the only time she feel 'different' is when outside people say shit like that. Keep loving her and enjoy this time in your lives! Congrats on your daughter and new baby!
KrDizzy 16
That's really ******. A lot of adopted kids probably already feel awful and unloved for being given up by parents, or sad and lonely if their parents died and blood family didn't want them or couldn't care for them. To hear things from your adopted family on top of that? So sad. Your mom's a bitch..