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Friends wants another baby. Was I wrong to say this?

28 replies

Frankola · 18/02/2022 19:53

Last week my Dear Friend of 20 years asked me a question and I'm not sure she liked my answer.

DF has been desperate for a 2nd child for at least a year. She has discussed this with her DP and at the moment it would seem he is not keen.

For context. Her DP has 2 children from a first marriage and 1 child with my DF. My DF has explained to him that while she loves her SCs she doesn't feel the same as if they were her own and really wants another.

DF told me she now feels at an impass because if her DP won't have another baby with her, she feels she may as well leave him because resentment will grow at the idea he is preventing her from having another mother-child relationship. She believes she might be better off meeting someone else and having a baby with them.

My opinion on this was (and this is the bit I dont think she liked) that she has to consider if it's worth splitting up her family and affecting her first child to MAYBE end up having a baby with someone else in future.

I also said she might not actually resent her DP for not agreeing to a baby but she's adamant she will.

She is 38 so she would have to meet someone new quickly?! I didn't say that to her face! Grin

Was I wrong to have pointed these things out? Should I have just nodded along and supported her ideas?

I dont want to be a bad friend...

OP posts:
BOOTS52 · 18/02/2022 21:25

I think you actually gave very good advice and she did ask you but often people ask but do not want to hear the answer. I think she is equally selfish to think of breaking up her family so she can have another child. You have done nothing wrong and things must not be great in her relationship if she is thinking of leaving so easy. Just be there for her and surely she will come around.

godmum56 · 18/02/2022 21:35

I think you are the best kind of friend, an honest one. I wonder if she is entering perimenopause? I am childless not by choice and had long made my peace with it but when I realised that "not yet" had become "not ever" I had a difficult few months and some crazy thoughts. I was 39 at the time

diddl · 18/02/2022 21:57

I don't really get the bit about the SC-is it that she wants 2 kids with him because someone else has 2 kids with him?

I mean another one of her own won't change how she feels about her SC will it?

4 kids are a lot to support & it's understandable that he might not want that.

I think that you were right in what you said tbh.

It's not that easy to just meet someone & have a kid.

She could end up on her own & with no more kids.

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