We are quickly criticized for being uncivil and unpleasant when we genuinely reveal our own feelings and thoughts. Hypocrisy? Maybe. Or perhaps it’s just a social interaction – after all, if a specific reply is anticipated from us, any other response may upset the other individual. For instance, when a woman announces her pregnancy. And that is precisely what we will discuss today. Read the story to know what happened after the pregnancy announcement and let us know how you would deal with such a situation?
Source: Reddit
I F(18) have a sister F (38) who we will call “Kay” for privacy reasons. Kay has 4 children with her husband (3f, 8f, 2f,11f). K is a stay-at-home mom, and her husband works in air conditioning. k and her husband came over with their kids on his time off to tell us something. She said that they are pregnant with their fifth child. my mom was overjoyed. and I wasn’t really paying attention. I was focusing on the tv. then my sister says, “so what do you think about the news”
I said, “cool awesome”. then my sister says, “just cool, you don’t seem that excited for me?” and I said ” well what do you want me to do? jump up and down and scream my head off. I can see if this was like your first child that you were expecting, like a first-time mother moment, you got four kids and on your fifth pregnancy by this time you get used to it.
Was this baby really hard to conceive, like was it hard to like to get pregnant? and Kay said, ” no it just happened, I took the test a week ago” and I said, ” ok then, so at a certain point after find number 3 people reaction is not going to be that enthusiastic as if was you were expecting with your first” Kay said “I thought you will be happy for me” and I was like I am but it’s not that expecting for me since you been pregnant before. She got mad and left with her husband and kids and did not stay for dinner. My mom thinks I should apologize to Kay for not being excited about her pregnancy announcement. So Am I A Jerk?
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