Today, all of my friends and family have ostracized me, and no one is willing to talk to me about anything, because I gave my baby up for adoption after my husband died. Nobody understands that I'm not cut out to be a single mom. FML.
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, after years of miscarriages and desperately wanting a child, I lost my temper and screamed at my sister after she announced she'd had an abortion last month. Now no one in the family will speak to me, since I referred to her adopted kids as, "Not really her children." FML
Today, I ran into my aunt I hadn’t seen since I was a child. My mom told me she took off and stopped speaking to everyone. After lunch, I asked her why she left. She said our whole family ostracized her for aborting her abusive husband’s baby and divorcing him instead of "making it work." FML
Today, everyone says I'm being too hard on my son, who I disowned and went no contact with after he cleaned out all of my late wife's belongings without asking. I have nothing, literally nothing left of her now. FML
Today, my parents disowned me because I threw out my wife and son after I found out that the kid wasn't mine. According to them, I'm a "heartless asshole." FML
Today, I was disowned in my family because of the pandemic, after I refused to quit my job and live at my parents house, with them supporting my family, so now no one in my family has acknowledged my existence since August 2020. FML
Today, my parents disowned me because I told them I don’t want kids. FML
Today, I'm in the process of adopting a child. When I called my mom to tell her the news, she just said, "Oh honey, don't adopt, it's the worst decision you'll ever make." I'm adopted. FML
Today, I realized how much my family truly hates me. I had a whole baby and nobody showed up to the hospital. FML
Today, I was uninvited to a family reunion because I’m the result of my mom’s affair while she was married to her husband, who raised me as a dad for 22 years before we found out. According to my aunts, uncles, and cousins who I grew up with, it means I’m not really family anymore. FML
Today, my best friend and I have been friends for over 35 years and now suddenly I don’t have a friend anymore, all because my idiot son got his daughter pregnant then abandoned her, and somehow it’s my fault my son is a deadbeat and I deserve to have a 35 year friendship taken away FML
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bigredmonkeybutt 30
If you’re not prepared to raise the child, it’s better off being adopted.
DLBL 23
Did any of those judgy people offer to adopt? Why didn't a married relative step up? You did well, dear. Your child will have a better future because of your good judgement and big heart.
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bigredmonkeybutt 30
If you’re not prepared to raise the child, it’s better off being adopted.
DLBL 23
Did any of those judgy people offer to adopt? Why didn't a married relative step up? You did well, dear. Your child will have a better future because of your good judgement and big heart.
FluffythePink 23
Sometimes being a genuinely responsible parent means acknowledging and accepting that you would be a terrible parent and then doing what is best for the child. 🫂 If no one in the family or friend group stepped up to take the child in when you admitted that you couldn't cope, then that's on them, not you. You did the best thing you could for the child and they don't get an opinion that counts if they refused to help. The thing is, if they HAD all stepped up to help you, you MAY have been able to cope enough to keep the baby, but they didn't and left you with this choice. So who's fault is it really? Get therapy and move on when you are ready to.