Left out

[Trying365]

Sorry for random post but... does anyone else ever feel totally and utterly left out?

I'm not sure if it's Father's Day or just generally more photos on my social media feeds of happy families but... sometimes I feel so completely and utterly left out of parenthood and being a 'family'. It's like some giant party everyone else got an invitation to but DH and I didn't.

I see other people's pictures, all snuggled up and holding their DC or photos of their DC going off to school event or DofE and I just think... I'm always outside of that.

Sorry, really downer post, just wanted to vent somewhere that others may understand.

Yep totally get it, I don't have many friends with older kids but I'm the only one of my friends without kids and I'm watching them grow 1, 2, 3 years old another child and feel completely left behind wondering if it will ever be me.

I guess however grass is always greener, I'm sure behind the social media posts they will have their own problems and stressors and might actually be really jealous of their child free friends when we feel jealous of them!

It's so hard though, I've really struggled with all the father's Day posts. My last IVF cycle failed on mother's Day so that was hard too.

Father's Day has been really hard on DH this year. We ended up doing a total social media blackout and I bought him a new computer game to help take his mind off things a bit (I don't think it worked though).

Roll on tomorrow.