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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a teenager. I regret having her almost every day. I got breast cancer when I carried her and I refused doctor's advice to have an abortion and treat the cancer. I work and have given my all for her. I need her to outgrow her selfishness. It has eaten a hole in my soul. Everything, all the time, every moment of everyday is about her...or she feels it is. 
I am exhausted and cannot wait for her to leave for college. Her Dad funds everything for her and does not allow her to have any consequences for her actions. 
So yes OP I do regret it. I wish I had put myself first.[/quote]

I’m sorry for your situation.  When my first was 18 months my DD started having Major health issues that no doctor could seem to diagnose or cure and a specialist at Hopkins told me “you really need to quit your job to take care of her, I’ve never seen such a young child so stressed in my career.”   So I did, although I was pregnant with my second and loved my career.  Three months later, just poof my daughter’s health issues just disappeared, no explanation.  And I couldn’t get my job back.  Or any job.  I looked for 5 years, and no one would hire me despite my experience and credentials.  My career was over, for nothing.

Now my DD is a teen and like yours it’s all about her 24/7. She’s rude, salty in the mouth, uncooperative, and just so hard.  She fights with me constantly.  It turns me into someone I can’t stand to me.  The arguing, the discipline, the exhaustion.  I feel like she took my career, my livelihood, for what?  Yes, I’ve beem to therapy over this.  No, I don’t tell her these feelings.  Yes, I love her.  But it kills me a little each day what could have been.  And she has no clue. [/quote]

The resentment you carry about this makes me sad. What kind of job did you have that no one would hire you after stopping? I know some career tracks have few off and on ramps.

As for your daughter's health issues, is it possible that your being home with her did in fact help her?

I think it's easy to feel resentful for the self-sacrifice. But remember that these are your choices. You decided to have a child. You decided to stop working and care for her. That's the best you knew how to do at the time. Try to let go and live in the present. Opening your heart to your teen and working with her might help your relationship. Do you do therapy with her?[/quote]

You're a prime example of an idiot person who would encourage someone to have a child and yet when someone confides about the difficulty of said child,you turn around and go "BUT you made a choice." Seriously? [/quote]

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