Then share them with me.
Or! Maybe I'm emotional from all the pregnancy hormones racing through my body!
I also had slightly tender boobs. PMS. gloom.
Or! My boobs are gearing up to be milk machines! joy!
By Sunday I had confirmed spotting. Just the start of another cycle. Sick to stomach from sadness.
Or! Really late implantation! Sick to stomach from excitement! Wait, sick to stomach? That's clearly morning sickness!
Saturday topped all this off with me inadvertently watching a show where two women start talking about accepting life with no children and how "accepting" is different from "knowing." Oh yeah. I lost it. Bawled my eyes out.
And the cherry was when Husband decided to be a very big ass, specifically to me, on Sunday. In front of people. Who were guests in our house. (He apologized this evening. Two days later.)
I took some of the least-expired Aleve we have (for cramps) and went to bed.
This all built up to me staying home from work yesterday to have a day of self. Self pity. Self indulgence. Self loathing. With an extra helping of the self pity.
Clearly, I'm grappling with reality and have a weak grip. I feel like composure is a very fragile facade. On the inside I'm a wreck of a human being.
I'm still a little stuck in the self pity/self loathing cycle. One leads to the other and back again. It goes like this:
Pity: I feel so sorry for me.
Loathing: Man, I hate myself. How pathetic.
Pity: Woe is me! I can't have a baby!
Loathing: I'm such a whiner. I hate whiners.
Pity: Wah! sob sob sob...
Loathing: I'm the worst person ever. I don't deserve a baby.
I started researching books on adoption. That did not help things. Not at all. Consequently, I desperately need to hear stories about adopted children who grow up to be normal adults. If anyone can contact me with people who were adopted and are well-adjusted and happy, that would be nice. Because reading the reviews for adoption books convinced me that any child I adopt will be scarred for life and no amount of love will fix it.
I don't know why this cycle has hit me so hard, but it has. I've actually been crying while writing this post. It's ridiculous. I've had horrible headaches from the crying for the last few days. Looks like I'm going to have another one tonight.
I promise to be happier for my next post. I have to be, because this cannot last. And I don't really want to take anti-depressants.
You don't have to apologize for how you feel...and you don't have to promise to be happy in your next post. So my issue isn't fertility anymore. It was once, though. But I have other issues today....lots and lots of issues as a matter of fact.
ReplyDeleteAnd I totally get the pity and self loathing. I have been there. I wish I could give you words of encouragement or make you promises, but I can't. I can tell you I have known lots of adopted kids who are adults now and are perfectly normal. Well, at least they don't have any more issues than you and I do.
love to you, my dear...
You can be a big ball of sadness and self-pity if you need to, we'll love you anyway. Just be yourself. I feel sad as well. I want you to be a mother so badly. But you can be a mother through pregnancy or adoption. Either way, you would be a mom. A really great mom, to a child who would be lucky to have you.
ReplyDeleteMy best friend from college was adopted. She is honestly the healthiest, happiest person I've ever met. When I met her family it was the first time I realized that there is such a thing as a happy family. It changed my life. I recently wrote to her mother to thank her, because they had such an impact on my life. The funny thing is, I never knew she was adopted until a few months ago. It just never came up. And we've been friends for 13 years.
Oh, sweety, I'm so sorry you're sad. Life just bites sometimes and especially this winter which appears to be the beginning of the next ice age. I think you've got the winter blues, dear, along with PMS and no bun in the oven. You can fight the winter blues!! No matter how much you really, really, really don't want to - go exercise! Take your husband and the dogs and go for like a 2 mile walk. Of better yet, try to jog. The pounding helps create more endorphins for me. I'll write you an email with other tips.
ReplyDeleteMike McCrady, a friend of ours, was adopted and didn't meet his biological mother until he was 18. He is a successful, happy newly wed who is a politico like my hubby.
Lisa here at work has two adopted children and they seem to be regular children with no major, counseling-needed type problems. Their big problems are allergies (whoopty) and remembering to study for their history test.