I'm 35. I've known since I was a teenager that having my own children wasn't a possibility. I haven't ever quite come to terms with it.
My little sister has 5 kids. The last being a mixed set of twins, two at Christmas. That would also be her only girl.
It's been a tumultuous relationship with my sister, but finally we are close.
She's always made a big thing of understanding my feelings about infertility and allowing me and DH a close relationship with her kids.
To the dilemma.
I have bought all the kids clothes over the years and always made sure to buy what their mum wanted. For Christmas I was super excited to buy baby girl a dress because I haven't bought dresses before. My sister told me the size and despite me asking multiple times, didn't have a style preference. She also said Vinted was fine, as she knows im fussy about quality.
So I bought a dress that DH and I both liked.
My sister HATED it and asked me to cancel the order. Which I did. To be honest, she was pretty vile about how much she hated the design. Fine, I understand. No problem.
But then she asked me if I could see her daughter in that. I can. She's worn colourful prints before. I said I'd dress my kid in that.
And that's when she said "well thank God you don't have children because you would dress them horribly."
I came off the phone and cried.
I don't mind honestly that she hated the dress.
But when she was glad I didn't have kids it broke my heart. AIBU?
I'm honestly scared to buy another dress.