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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I’m sorry no one even texted you to check. Maybe they didn’t want to bother you while you were recuperating? Sometimes I don’t like to message people right after a birth/surgery/etc bc I feel like I’m making one more demand on an already stressed person.

I have to say, I don’t understand why your DH went on his trip after your surgery....? It sounds like you need to go out of your way to ask for more help, in general.

It sounds like you have a lot of energy if you are working, taking care of kids, AND hosting showers, making meals and care packages, taking friends to lunch, etc. Not everyone has that energy. Some people (specifically all those other people you know with no village) just don’t have the bandwidth for anything beyond work and their own family. Maybe people assume you are really independent and capable and don’t need much help.

I also want to say - and this is more toward some other posters and not so much OP - it does bother me a little when people invoke “the village.” [b]It always seems to be brought up by working moms who have hit a crisis and then wonder where their “village” (aka group of women who provide free childcare and household help at a moment’s notice) [/b]is. [/quote]

This.  From what OP described, she wanted free childcare when her husband had an illness.  [/quote]

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