She Got Called Out For Being The Golden Child And Bragging About Having A Perfect Pregnancy While Knowing That Her Sister Had An Awful Experience
Many women are well aware that pregnancy is a different experience for everyone. Some women have an incredibly easy time growing their babies, while others suffer almost the entire nine months with horrible symptoms.
One woman recently upset her sister, who had an outburst when she talked about how smoothly her pregnancy was going at a family dinner because she had the opposite experience.
She’s 24 and has a 29-year-old sister with an 18-month-old daughter. She’s 35 weeks pregnant and remembers her sister’s pregnancy well.
Her sister had an awful experience during her pregnancy. Not only was she ill all the time, but she also had little in the way of a support system. Her sister separated from her husband in the middle of her pregnancy and was on bad terms with their parents at the time, though everything is getting better now. Or so she thought.
Now that she’s 35 weeks in, she can look back on her pregnancy happily. She’s had a much better experience than her sister.
“My pregnancy wasn’t entirely hard,” she said.
“My husband and I have a good relationship [that is] even better now. My relationship with my parents and our siblings has always been good, too, and besides some minor inconveniences, my pregnancy has been going great so far. My mother is planning to move in with us for one or two weeks after I give birth to help me out, which is something she didn’t do for my sister.”
A few nights ago, her parents invited her, her sister, and their other siblings for dinner. Her pregnancy was a topic of discussion, but other things were talked about as well. However, while she was talking about her most recent doctor’s appointment, her sister had an outburst.
“My sister told me that it’s not right to ‘brag,'” she recalled.
Yakobchuk Olena – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
“I asked her what she meant because I wasn’t bragging at all. She told me that talking about how ‘good and perfect’ my pregnancy has been so far is bragging.”
She disagreed with her sister, and once her mother spoke up to defend her, her sister freaked out. Suddenly, her sister began accusing her of being the ‘golden child’ of the family and constantly wanting everyone’s attention on her.
Her sister also told her she’s probably excited to take all of the family’s attention away from her and her daughter and force everyone to focus on her new baby.
She clapped back at her sister, telling her not to project her anger onto her and that it was her fault she didn’t have a good support system during her pregnancy because of her actions.
After arguing back and forth, her dad decided to kick her sister out. Once her sister left, everyone at the table started talking badly about her, which made her feel a bit guilty.
“Now that I’m thinking about it, I wonder if I made a mistake?” she asked.
Should she feel bad for talking about her easy pregnancy in front of her sister, or does her sister need to calm down?
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