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[quote=Anonymous]My parents were quite extreme about wanting grandkids by American standards. It's partly cultural (East Asian), and partly their personality. Constant berating, pressuring, and guilt tripping, b/c they had absolutely no sense of boundaries. I was going through marital and fertility issues, and learned the hard way never to share any intimate details about my life with them lest they throw it in my face later. So yes, I was tight lipped about my personal struggles, b/c if I tell them we were having fertility issues, my mom would say (and she had said it), well if you got married earlier like we wanted you to and started trying sooner, you would not have these problems. They would NOT let up and honestly, those years before I had kids were pretty awful in terms of my relationship with my parents. It's like they were laser focused on me having children.

Yeah, I believe the pp who said she cannot tell her mom about her fertility struggles. Some parents are just that clueless and unwittingly pushing their children away.[/quote]

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