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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My ILs never acknowledged that our first pregnancy ended in a m/c. I can't be close to people who could not be bothered to offer even a cursory "I'm sorry." for one of the most difficult things I've experienced. When my H called to let them know the pregnancy wasn't viable, they acted as if he were talking about the weather. [/quote]

My mom had something like 6 miscarriages before she got pregnant with my older sister. When I was told about that time in my parents lives it was in a very matter of fact way - not at ALL emotional. I truly thought that women had like, a 50/50 shot of a pregnancy sticking and you get pregnant and then just wait half a year or so to see if it sticks or not. It wasn't until my late 20's, talking with friends that I came to realize many women see it much more emotionally than the women in my family do. Maybe your in-laws just see it the way my mom sees it, and the way I saw it for years. [/quote]

Even if that's how they see it, that doesn't make it any less painful for the PP, [b]not[/b] does it make their response appropriate. If I hated my mother and wouldn't care if she was gone, would it be okay to not acknowledge the (painful for her) death of a friend's mother just bc I "see it differently?"[/quote]

Should say nor. [/quote]

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