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Wish I had another child. I feel incomplete

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Mazz1986 · 26/03/2025 15:28

I’m 38 my husband is 40.
I had my son when I was 19, it was very stressful, we had to be careful with money but my husband was an amazing provider, and my son was just a easy perfect child. when my son was 4 I went back to work part time, and my husband went on to better work,
we finally got a mortgage on a house, I always asked about having another baby, I kept everything I had of my sons.
mad time went on, I’d ask shall we start trying now? It was always no, there was always a reason, we need to finish renovating, pass my driving test, let’s finish paying the mortgage,
I just stopped asking so much, then we moved I asked, when our friends had babies I would make a remark like “I’ll be next I think”
we moved when I was 34 to our lovey forever home. He said it was too much of an age gap and now I’m 38 I’m struggling to come to terms that I won’t have another.
I wanted another so much, now it’s too late.. not that 38 is too late. I mean the age gap, my sons 20 this year. He told me when we moved that we would have another but stop at one !! i had a miscarriage at 34 at 9 weeks , but when I told him I was pregnant he wasn’t really happy about the idea. which broke my heart.
I feel like I’m missing a child from my life. I cry all the time about the child I don’t have, then cry because I should be grateful that I had one perfect child..
I have said some awful things to my husband and resent him for it.
it’s taking over my life, im crying on my way from work seeing my friends walk from the school, having to buy gifts for my cousins new baby’s and birthdays .
I struggle to be around them.
I told my husband that all he cared about is money and he really doesn’t deserve it.
im wondering is there something physically wrong with me, hormones ?? ovulation makes me a million times worse..
I know I’m grieving for a baby I never had.
I feel empty.

OP posts:
FeatherChops · 26/03/2025 15:35

Sounds to me like he’s dangled a carrot for years. Your only options are to A have another final conversation about it and get a definitive ‘no’ from him and to then B decide what you’re doing with that definitive ‘no.’

are you leaving him? Staying with him but feeling resentful? Coming to terms with it? Trying to talk him round?

Rocknrollstar · 26/03/2025 15:50

I think you need to get some counselling so you can get clear in your head what is going on. Why are you so obsessed with having another baby when you have reached a stage where you and DH can lead independent adult lives? What is going on in your career? Counselling will help you decide what it is you really want.

Mazz1986 · 26/03/2025 18:43

FeatherChops · 26/03/2025 15:35

Sounds to me like he’s dangled a carrot for years. Your only options are to A have another final conversation about it and get a definitive ‘no’ from him and to then B decide what you’re doing with that definitive ‘no.’

are you leaving him? Staying with him but feeling resentful? Coming to terms with it? Trying to talk him round?

Well no I don’t have plans to leave him,
he was unsure about having a baby and then didn’t want to as we are too old.
im not going to leave my husband because I wanted another baby.
I wouldn’t want to force him to have a baby he didnt want. Leaving my husband and tearing apart our family isn’t something I would do just because I wanted something that he didn’t..
I’m asking does it get better, does the feeling ever go away

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FeatherChops · 27/03/2025 18:47

Well there’s your answer then. No one can answer if it gets better and the feeling goes away as that’s an individual thing

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