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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This post is ridiculous- being a parent is a choice, and so is your career, number of kids, geographic location.  The quiz demonstrated how people start the race ahead due to what was given to them as kids. Your lament is that you don’t have some of the niceties of adulthood- but those are mostly the sum of your choices! How are you going to complain about not having family nearby when you are raising kids in another city? If you want family close by, you need to move near your family. If you want a bigger salary, you have to get a job that pays more. If you want mom friends you have to make friends. If you want to outsource, you have to think of some other line item on your budget to give up.  Also I’ve literally never had the dilemma you are worried about. I’m thankful people serve on the pta etc and have never once felt bad about not doing it or looked askance at people who don’t.  [/quote]

Actually living close to family is not a choice when you’re an only child and your parents are dead. [/quote]

God, we get it, OP.  You have the hardest life of anyone in the world.

Maybe the reason you don’t have a lot of friends is because no one is interested in competing in your grievance Olympics. [/quote]

Christ, shut the hell up. Nope, not OP here, nor in her position. Be less of a nasty ugly witch to people who are yearning for more connection and have the stones to express that, knowing that gross people like you are eagerly waiting to slap her down.[/quote]

Honestly OP is talking about being asked a relatively mundane question and having an outsized anger reaction to it that includes wanting to cuss out the person who asked her. I have empathy for moms juggling a lot, I am a mom to three kids under 7 who works full time and has absolutely no local help other than what I can pay for (fortunately we have enough money to pay for preschool and aftercare without struggling). The only people I judge are those who are unkind, and while OP certainly seems to be going through a lot, she doesn't pass the kind test any better than the PP you're responding to. [/quote]

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