She’s Constantly Expected To Just Babysit Her Nephew For Free, But She’s Sick Of It
This woman, who is in her 30s, got married not that long ago.
She is on her third round of IVF, and she’s also taking online classes full-time.
Up until just recently, she was working full-time hours at a school, but she resigned from her position because she was going to start student teaching, which was required for her education, and the school she’d been working at wasn’t aligned with the grade level she needed to be student teaching for.
“I just wanted to take the time off working to bust out my classes as soon as possible and start teaching to make more money,” she said.
When she started the third round of IVF, she realized that she had to eliminate as many life stressors as she realistically could.
Sadly, her family hasn’t been supportive or shown much interest in the huge changes she’s had in her life.
Her family hasn’t celebrated her recent marriage or acknowledged the fact that she is adjusting to juggling quality time with her husband, school, and coping with infertility.
Unfortunately, it seems like her family only reaches out when they need her to watch her nephew.
“And when struggling with infertility, it can be a knife to the heart watching someone’s toddler. My family thinks because I do not have children, I have infinite amounts of free time, which is not true at all,” she explained.
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Once a week, she picks her nephew up after school and takes care of him until around 6:30 p.m. Even though her nephew’s mother gets done with work at 4 p.m., she runs errands before she returns home. Recently, her nephew’s mother was hoping to take a trip over the weekend and asked if she could watch her nephew overnight.
In response, she told her that she would have a discussion with her husband about the idea, and she’d also have to check to see how much homework she’d have over the weekend because she wasn’t sure if she’d have time to watch her nephew and get all her homework done before Monday.
In addition, she and her husband own a dog whom they don’t really trust to behave around her nephew. This means that if she watched her nephew, she would have to put her dog in his crate the entire time her nephew was at her house.
If she wanted to avoid crating her dog, she’d have to sleep overnight at her nephew’s mother’s house.
“I didn’t hear anything else from her, so I assumed she had found something else,” she shared.
Later, her nephew’s mother texted her to say that she was planning to go to New York for the weekend, and she asked if she could watch her nephew overnight, as well as take care of her dogs while she was gone.
Understandably overwhelmed by this request, she told her that she wouldn’t be able to. What would you have done if you were in her shoes?
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