Serial name changer, first time poster in AIBU. Be gentle.
Dh has left me. We were ttc at the time. Since then I had various people tell me that I had a lucky escape with the whole baby thing. It's 'not worth it', 'you lose sleep', your 'social life dies'. There seems to be a real atmosphere at work to upstage other mothers in terms of 'parental suffering'. Yet, all these women went on to have second babies. One woman, who was actually pregnant at the time, told me 'uh don't be a mother, it's too stressful' when I confided in her that I am anxious to never have my own family now that dh had left me.
AIBU that this is getting me down?
(Deep down I know I am and that parenthood is stressful, but why do they have more children then? Also, I want all this for myself and might be over-sentive.)