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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know what you mean by being smug. What does he do that bothers you? Does he say “having kids is so easy I don’t know what you were complaining about?”

In this case, just wait for the next phase or next baby. You know that no kid or family is always easy.
One of my closest friend was finally able to have her first (after years of IVF). I had my first 10 years ago and could not complain about anything with her because she kept telling me to think of single moms, or people having kids during wars. I bothered me so much, it hurt my feelings a lot and from my side, our friendship never completely recovered.

Her baby was easy at first and she was “smug”. Now he is not sleeping anymore and she complains and is always miserable. I empathize (unlike her with me), but secretly I am happy and hope she remembers how she treated me when I was in her shoes.[/quote]

You do realize you are super privileged here, right?[/quote]

In what way? I am lucky I am not a sigle mom and I don’t live in a war torn country. What else? I did not have family nearby to help, did not have huge amount of money to pay for help. It wasn’t easy, but of course there are always people that have it worse. What’s your point?[/quote]

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