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My cousin “loves her DD more than a normal mother”

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Sally20099 · 02/01/2026 17:54

This sounds petty, and it probably is, but I’m getting rather fed up of my cousin constantly telling me I wouldn’t understand how much love she has for her DD because she is “special” (ie she needed IVF to conceive and waited many years for this to materialise). It’s now been over a year and my cousin still goes on about this, and in all seriousness regularly announces or implies that those who conceive naturally can not love their own children as much because her struggle was so immense (and btw I’m not suggesting it wasn’t anything other than heartbreaking). AIBU if I say something and end this nonsense or should I just put up with it?

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TomatoSandwiches · 02/01/2026 17:58

She hasn't got any reference has she, of course her baby is special to her but that's it. She'll get bored of herself eventually, I wouldn't let it bother me tbh.

FuzzyWolf · 02/01/2026 17:58

Your cousin or your sister? Regardless, why haven’t you said something sooner and more so if it’s your sister? She’ll be ridiculed by others.

ForCraftyWriter · 02/01/2026 17:58

But you can never understand how she feels can you as you haven’t had that experience

TakeALookAtTheseSwatches · 02/01/2026 17:58

My SIL had two miscarriages between her son and her daughter, I got pregnant just before she got pregnant with her daughter, they ended up being born just 2 weeks apart which I thought was lovely but she spoiled it by constantly saying how she'd tried so hard for her baby and I'd "stolen her thunder", we also liked a name during pregnancy and I made the mistake of telling her and she then said she was calling her daughter an almost identical name and I shouldn't call my daughter X because I didn't have to try for her.

She still seems to think this year's later, that her child is more loved and "special".