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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since this is anonymous OP, I'll admit that I'm so glad I have two daughters for exactly the reasons you outlined. DH loves his parents and is a dutiful Asian son but the level of closeness and frequency of communication is nothing like his sister has with their mom. I don't even like my own mom that much but my kids spend a ton of time at her house and we're in regular communication. It's just a different type of relationship.[/quote]

Same, 3 daughters 0 sons and I couldn't be happier about it. [/quote]

Same here.  I have two daughters and a son. 
I'm thrilled to have daughters.  I honestly feel sorry for my friends who only have boys (on the rare occasions that I think about gender).

That said, I've had my own very hard things to deal with.  We all do. Most of us don't get everything we want in life.  
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Please don’t ever feel sorry for me and my family of two boys. How can you have children and feel like another family is less than because of the gender of the children. This whole thread is so full of so many generalizations and assumptions. I’m so grateful for my boys and definitely don’t need anyones pity. [/quote]

+1. I know gender disappointment is a thing and I wouldn’t try to deny anyone’s right to have feelings around that but please don’t assume that families with children of the same gender are disappointed! I have 3 boys and am truly content and have never experienced feeling of sadness that one of them isn’t a girl. Girls are also great and I’m sure I would have been happy with that but too often people pity dads of all girls and moms of all boys. This is unnecessary and so common, the comments I got before I knew the gender of my third “I bet you hope it’s a boy!” and, after he was born, “I’m sorry, are you going to try for a 
girl?”. I wanted 3 kids and I have them, I was never trying for a gender. It’s a bummer people reduce kids down to their gender and I hope my boys never hear those types of comments or feel like I would have preferred a daughter. [/quote]

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