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
Collection
Fall
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
Feel like sharing it with the other FML users?
Thanks, your FML was submitted, and will appear in the moderation queue soon!
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.
Add a comment · Reply to
You must be logged in to be able to post comments!
Comments (164)
isabelf 17
Some people can't keep their mouths shut.
iiTzNeeNerz 26
& those people are usually the ones that should.
MrsDruidess 23
she wont ever learn too either, this is going to be a long long struggle for OP :-( My father in law ruined a video of my son walking by saying loudly how shitty he thought my nephew was. It's been an issue getting him to stop openly preferring the 1st grandson over the 2nd. So now I cant even share the video with the family or it will start a huge family wide fight. good luck OP
HarshD9619 34
It's not just about keeping her mouth shut. It's plain sad for any adopted kid's grandma to think like this
meisiemeisie 8
Was your son walking while singing Bohemian Rhapsody? If not, cut the audio & set the video to music. Problem solved.
okokalright 15
Try to cheer your daughter up OP. A real parent is a person who loves, supports, and cares for the child. It doesn't matter if you're not the biological parent. What your mom said was really insensitive
Szaszaspasz 26
Dub the video so it is mute or has a music track. There is a lot of software to do that. I'm sorry you have to deal with that.
Mons_fml 27
can use the track from 2001: a space odyssey. from when the early humans start using tools in front of the monolith. as he rises up and starts walking.
Eariel 5
You could edit the voices out and put some happy music instead.
ZelmaSlayer 30
Your daughter should cheer up! You can't choose your mother but she was chosen by you :)
sarcasmine 19
That is the most beautiful thing I've seen on this site
tdawg91 17
This really is the most perfectly worded thing, I wish all adopted children with doubts could see these words
I_Like_Dogs 28
This was beautifully put, but still it's tough to have a grandma that clearly doesn't see you as a real family member. Poor daughter.
psychopolarbear 28
Yeah ^-^ one of my friends and her brother are adopted. She loved that fact and when asked why, would respond "everyone else's parents were stuck with whatever kid they had. My mother CHOSE us!" I feel all adopted kids should see it this way. Their parents put a lot of time and effort into finding and jumping through the necessary hoops to bring their adopted child home. Of course they love the children that they choose.
kyliexrich 5
I absolutely love this reply.
jordanlite 16
Coming from an adopted kid who has heard that over and over again, it's not absorbed the way it's meant to. Even as a little kid when people would say that crap to me I would picture my parents looking through a catalog of kids and would think "thank goodness I was pretty enough/cute enough/whatever enough for them to pick me." It doesn't make a kid feel like they belong, it makes them feel like they were picked because of some feature that made them attractive to their parents.
746278Ab 14
Sounds like an FML for your daughter...
tylercoffman420 19
she should be happy her friends parents could hate them but her mom hand picked her
Otherhats 20
Geez, some people are just so inconsiderate.
guss5441 18
Some people don't know when yo open their mouths
missyfiona89 28
or when to close them.
MajicSenpai 12
That's really mean -.- It's not your daughter's fault that she wasn't born into your family.
climbr11410 12
This is why kids are still ashamed of something they should be proud of.
teentee401 37
^^^This. My (adopted) sister is almost 12 and she is still insecure about being adopted and sometimes doubts she's part of the family. The grandma is a a total bitch for saying or even thinking such a thing.
apineapple 40
At least you adopted her. There are plenty of kids out there who wish they can have a good family.
Sammeydw 22
Or any family at all. There are way too many kids that have no idea of what a family is. Because they have never had one, and many of the people they trust haven't had a family either.
amileah13 26
Wow what a shitty thing to say in front of her I feel so awful for your daughter.
cheeeksss 29
It's also a shitty thing to think, imo. An adopted child is just as much a part of the family as a birthed one.
amileah13 26
Yeah, I agree. It's obvious for however long she has had her daughter, the grandmother was thinking this all along. I can't even imagine what she's going through and feeling. I hope this gets an update, I'd love to know how op and ops daughter is doing.
Szaszaspasz 26
...and didn't cause their mom to have stretch marks and a trip to the delivery room. The biological mother did it for the kid's mom.