Today, my mother still refuses to acknowledge my son as her grandson, all because I had a C-section, which she says is unnatural and against God's will. I only had the C-section in the first place for health reasons. 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 asked my Dad if it was true that my mother had a C-section at my birth. He replied "Yeah, so technically you weren't even born, you were surgically removed, like a tumor." FML
Today, my husband got a vasectomy. My mother-in-law is extremely upset that he only gave her one grandson. Guess my other son doesn't count. FML
Today, despite my warnings, my mother continues to go see my ex's son and encourage her to get more child support from me. They both say that because I signed the birth certificate, that makes that baby mine. I don't think he is, and I'm currently with someone else, with my first real son on the way. FML
Today, I came out to my mom as a lesbian. She told me that it was impossible, because since she isn't one, she therefore couldn't have given birth to one. She still won't believe me. FML
Today, my father informed me that I was born only because my mom lied about being on birth control. FML
Today, at my strictly Catholic grandmother's funeral, I was made to sit in the row behind the rest of the family, because I was born out of wedlock and wasn't a 'real' member. FML
Today, my 5 year old son asked me to explain how he was born. After I told him I had a C-Section, he went to school and told everyone he was born at sea. I found out when the teacher called me. FML
Today, I got married and my mom refused to be there because my dad, whose guts she hates, was there even though I promised repeatedly that I would keep them apart. I couldn't do the mother-son dance. She keeps insisting that it was a "lapse in judgment." Yeah, like we're really going to be able to have a do-over. FML
Today, my mother-in-law was so rabid to meet her first grandson, she didn’t just nudge me aside to get to the delivery room, she two-hand shoved me in the chest so I flew backwards and down a flight of stairs. I’m now in a neck brace for a hairline crack to my vertebrae and can’t pick up my own son. FML
Today, my daughter told me she never wants to see me again because I had an abortion. She wanted me to have the baby and then give it to her so she could raise it as hers. FML
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Top comments
justcommenting19 19
How dare you be careful with your own life?! That's not gods will! In all seriousness though, do you really want a crazy, over-zealously religious woman like that be near your son? Be thankful, maybe?
igg125 30
Maybe that wasn't an option 2000 years ago. Neither was half the stuff she owns.
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Comments (122)
jazalea8 16
Tell her she is going against God's will by how she treats others. God did not say you could not have surgery just like he did not tell her she could get her hair cut.
maitland25 2
what the hell is wrong with people i know damn straight that if anyone especially my mother or father said something like that i would hit them so far into next year they wouldnt see it coming
Saraishi 25
That's the most bullshit reason I ever heard for not acknowledging a child. There's no way that the C-section is her real reason.
MrDinosarus 4
Show me anywhere that it says "And God said: women can't have c sections, it's gross" I hate when shitty Christians make all of us look bad with their ignorance.
ToastyTheBeast 4
Actually your child was still "born from a woman's womb" he is still a child "of God"
nonsense_ok 11
Lol where in the bible does it say you can't get a c section? She's just stupid, sorry OP
Etweens96 25
I was a C-section baby. I was too big and two weeks overdue. Thing is, c-section existed for centuries, some women can't give natural birth and this is a way to bring more life into the world. God's will is basically to have all life and if c-sections help bring life then that is his will
Fixme 5
I'm really sorry for you, OP, that must hurt terribly! There's no excuse in the world for not acknowledging one's child or grandchild. Don't let her self-centered, ignorant bigotry get to you, but for the child's sake, give her a chance if she comes to her senses.
writerchic85 26
So I'm guessing she would have preferred you died in childbirth. Time to cut ties.
unsealingkale 18
So your mother believes in a god whose will is to possibly endanger the lives of a woman and her infant son? Do you really want her to call him her grandson?