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Anonymous wrote:Yes. I look at my 40 year old dc and yearn til it hurts. He will always be MY baby. His wife will never replace me.

Gross.

lol as a mom of girls this is slightly icky.

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Anonymous wrote:Today my baby turned 9. She had almost no interest in me, wanted to be with her friends all day. Not going to lie, mama heart was hurting. I do miss the baby days.

If you says things like “mama heart” nobody will have any interest in you.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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My kids are 4 and 7 and I mostly just want them to grow up. I’m so unbelievably tired. Like I am never NOT tired. I’m more tired than I was when they were babies. I don’t like being a parent.

I can relate to this with a 6 and 8yo. They mentally tire me out and wear me down over all the whining and fighting with each other. They can turn my perfectly fine day to scream fest 2023 during a 5 minute car ride home from school.

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Anonymous wrote:I would turn off this feature on your iPhone so you stop getting reminded randomly. That way you can choose to go down memory lane when you are in the right mood.

My kids are 4 and 7 and I mostly just want them to grow up. I’m so unbelievably tired. Like I am never NOT tired. I’m more tired than I was when they were babies. I don’t like being a parent.

I remember thinking way too often about how many years were left until my youngest turned 18. I loved them but parenting at certain ages was just killer. But now they are older and it's different.

Can you drop something in your life? I wonder if you would like being a parent more if you didn't have to juggle so many other hats.

+1. Figure out how to get the help you need. If I didn’t have local involved grandparents to give me a break I would hire lots of babysitters or quit my job. No use getting burnt out

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Anonymous wrote:Today my baby turned 9. She had almost no interest in me, wanted to be with her friends all day. Not going to lie, mama heart was hurting. I do miss the baby days.

If you says things like “mama heart” nobody will have any interest in you.

Lol… true

My youngest child left for college this Fall, 2000 miles away. I thought it would devastate me but actually it’s so wonderful at every single stage—especially this one, watching him take flight! It’s weird to me that some posters already are thinking about being “replaced” by a wife. It’s not a competition! I deeply want my children to experience all the love they can and live independently. I know I’ll always be their mom and loved as such.

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I look at my 40 year old dc and yearn til it hurts. He will always be MY baby. His wife will never replace me.

Gross.

Anonymous wrote:Today my baby turned 9. She had almost no interest in me, wanted to be with her friends all day. Not going to lie, mama heart was hurting. I do miss the baby days.

If you says things like “mama heart” nobody will have any interest in you.

Today my baby turned 9. She had almost no interest in me, wanted to be with her friends all day. Not going to lie, mama heart was hurting. I do miss the baby days.

It’s called life. Get over it.

I thought I’d miss the baby years but my kids are becoming really fun and interesting people as they grow older. It’s been nice to see their personalities develop and our relationship evolve as their needs change.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I look at my 40 year old dc and yearn til it hurts. He will always be MY baby. His wife will never replace me.

WTF. His wife isn’t his MOM. But she IS the most important female in his life, or should be.

DP but I think about this with my son a lot, it makes it extra hard. I want him to get married and love his wife more than me, that's natural and healthy. It just makes it all that harder knowing he'll never love me as much as he does right now. At least with my daughters I know it will always kind of be the same dynamic.

This seems weird to say (or think). Oedipal.

Mom-child relationship should be a totally separate thing from spouse-spouse relationship.

you’re saying even if your daughters marry, you will still be the most important person in their life? What if they marry a woman?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I look at my 40 year old dc and yearn til it hurts. He will always be MY baby. His wife will never replace me.

WTF. His wife isn’t his MOM. But she IS the most important female in his life, or should be.

DP but I think about this with my son a lot, it makes it extra hard. I want him to get married and love his wife more than me, that's natural and healthy. It just makes it all that harder knowing he'll never love me as much as he does right now. At least with my daughters I know it will always kind of be the same dynamic.

Son til wife. Daughters for LIFE!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I look at my 40 year old dc and yearn til it hurts. He will always be MY baby. His wife will never replace me.

WTF. His wife isn’t his MOM. But she IS the most important female in his life, or should be.

DP but I think about this with my son a lot, it makes it extra hard. I want him to get married and love his wife more than me, that's natural and healthy. It just makes it all that harder knowing he'll never love me as much as he does right now. At least with my daughters I know it will always kind of be the same dynamic.

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I look at my 40 year old dc and yearn til it hurts. He will always be MY baby. His wife will never replace me.

WTF. His wife isn’t his MOM. But she IS the most important female in his life, or should be.