Well..unless her son is not attracted to girls..
But I do get what she means-the sentiment is there.
Odds are one of the three would marry a woman.
Well..unless her son is not attracted to girls..
But I do get what she means-the sentiment is there.
EXACTLY what my husband and I say! I have three fantastic boys, 21,19, 16. I could not be more grateful for those three guys in my life. My girls will come when they get married. Yes, the comments got old for me but people just do not think. Why am I missing anything g because I didn’t have a girl??I know someone with three sons and when she gets comments about if she wanted a girl she replies she will have a daughter in the future, she’s just going to let her son pick her (daughter in law).
IDK..maybe maybe not. Just saying in this day that phrase is extremely confining and may not be applicable at all.Odds are one of the three would marry a woman.
Ugh I know seriously. That's so bad of that guy to say that to you! I've heard "oh you don't want to just have one" speech a lot too even by those close to me and I'm sitting here thinking "well if I just have one child for whatever reason what business is it of yours". Good for you for your come backI would get the opposite- aren't your going to have another one? She will always be lonely, she will be spoiled, etc- the worst was when she was in for an ultra this old Italian male doing the ultrasound told me that I should have another one because what if something happened to this one at least I would have another-- I finally just started saying "once you have the perfect child you don't need to keep trying for others, I had the perfect one so I stopped there"
How many questions and "poor you" did you get while expecting your 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc? We're having our third girl at the end of May (due May 31st), and my husband and I get asked on a frequent basis. "You NEED to try for THE boy?!" "Your poor husband, he'll be living in the estrogen ocean!" "Did you try and sway for a boy?"
They're all REALLY unnecessary questions, and quite frankly, it makes me uncomfortable! I'm proud of my family, and I know my husband is as well.
Does anyone have any good comebacks?
Help a mama out!
Thx!
I get the too many kids comments on a pretty regular basis. I only have three—my youngest are a set of twins, so it’s not like I had any say in the number of kids. It’s a touchy subject for me and people are usually met with a pretty assertive reply on my part. I consider my twins true medical miracles.When I was pregnant with #3 it was irritating to me that everyone assumed we were hoping for a boy. I’m sure it wasn’t intentional, but it implied to me that there was something not good enough about my girls that we would want to “keep trying” until we got a boy.
When we found out the sex (boy) and even after he was born, we constantly received comments about “how happy we must be” that we finally got a boy.
I usually responded that we were happy either way, but another girl would actually have been more convenient. That always made people pause for a moment and realize it was a dumb/rude thing to say.
Not related to sex, but to number... when I was a kid my parents received rude comments constantly about having too many children. “You know there’s a cure for that”/something about birth control was the most frequent (which was extremely hurtful because my mother had complications with my youngest sister and was no longer able to have more children). We also heard countless times, “Oh you must be Catholic.” To which my mother always replied, “No, we are half Catholic. That’s why we ONLY have 4.”
We have 2 girls. People feel sorry for me and I let them.
I LOVE this."How kind you are to take such an interest in our business."
We also heard countless times, “Oh you must be Catholic.” To which my mother always replied, “No, we are half Catholic. That’s why we ONLY have 4.”
My twins know that we were only trying to have one more baby. My daughter (the last to be born, technically) takes pride in announcing that she is the "extra" one. She will usually add something like "God thought you were a good mom, so he gave you 3."Just wait until someone tells your youngest she was an accident because she has 2 older brothers. She called from college upset because one of her teachers told the class she must have been an accident. She wouldn’t believe me when I kept trying to tell her she wasn’t. It had never occurred to her, and now she believes she was an accident.Grrrrrr
I get the too many kids comments on a pretty regular basis. I only have three—my youngest are a set of twins, so it’s not like I had any say in the number of kids. It’s a touchy subject for me and people are usually met with a pretty assertive reply on my part. I consider my twins true medical miracles.