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AIBU to think friend should not have implied I am unworthy of a good relationship

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myearringsdontsuityou · 13/10/2014 23:50

I've been stewing on this for a little while. Have name changed as the people mentioned know I come on here and I don't want anybody reading my other posts.

important background, I'm in a great relationship, DP is genuinely a very good man. I can't have children, he decided he would like to be with me regardless of this fact and he would be happy to never have DC. We are planning to marry. I am open about the fact I am infertile and I don't have any hang ups around it, I'm completely comfortable with it.

I was talking with 2 friends, one single and wants children in the near future the other single and has a DC. We were on the subject of relationships in general when the first friend made a comment along the lines of how it was unfair for me to have a nice DP and that it's not as if I would be having children. I was a bit Hmm and it was probably obvious on my face. She then continued by saying that kind/reliable men should be looking to marry so they can start a family. Other friend agreed with her...

I felt a bit excluded at this point and changed the subject pretty quickly but it has been in the back of my mind ever since. It was almost as if she was saying either I didn't deserve DP or that somehow women who can't have/don't want children deserve less from a relationship or should be lumped with the men with issues/addiction/never grew up sorts Confused.

Would you let it go? Or would you say something?

OP posts:
BitOutOfPractice · 14/10/2014 12:02

What a horrible thing to think, let alone say! (the friends I mean!)

CheersMedea · 14/10/2014 12:49

I think that's awful in a lot of ways. It's bad to say anything undermining to your friends full stop. It's highly insensitive to make comments about children choices to someone who is infertile. And it particularly unpleasant to suggest that you aren't worthy of a nice partner.

Oh what? Because you don't want children you should partner up with an abusive wife beater who doesn't want kids?

I am married but don't have children by choice (at the moment). That may change but I doubt it. I think people who really want children (especially single women) can over time go a bit crazy and get obsessed.

But for a friend to say that - I'd just walk on and leave that "friendship" in the dirt.

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