A new mom shared her Mother’s Day plans with an online community after being called “selfish” and “overdramatic.”
Infertility and Multiple Miscarriages.
“This coming Sunday will be my first Mother’s Day as a mom after three years of infertility and multiple miscarriages.
I think my history may be clouding my judgment here and making me selfish, but, at the same time, I’m having a hard time seeing how I’m wrong.”
Everyone is Upset.
“All I want to do for Mother’s Day is spend the day with my husband and baby and go for a nice lunch at my favorite restaurant.
This has apparently made everyone angry. My mother wants us to drive 1.5 hours to spend Mother’s Day with her. I really don’t want to spend 3 hours in a car with a five-month-old in one day.”
No One Understands.
“My MIL wants us to have lunch with her before she goes and has dinner with her mother.
My husband says we have to see his mother on Mother’s Day and, while he’s annoyed that she is only available to see us for lunch, says we will have to plan the day around her availability.”
She Is Expected to Compromise – While No One Else Will.
She’s expected to bend her plans around everyone else’s stubbornness.
“She does not want to go to the restaurant that I want to go to, and we can’t go to that restaurant for dinner because of the baby’s bedtime.”
She Wants the Day for Herself.
“Maybe I’m being selfish, but I feel like this is my first Mother’s Day, and we should do what I want, and everyone else can suck it up.
My husband thinks I need to compromise and that we can have a perfectly lovely lunch that celebrates both me and his mom somewhere that we both like. My mom is upset that no version of our Mother’s Day plans involves her.”
Breakdown.
“I finally broke down and told everyone that I would be going to my favorite restaurant with the baby and that they could all go do whatever they wanted.
Everyone is calling me selfish and overdramatic.”
She Needed Answers.
So she went online to ask if she was a jerk for wanting her first Mother’s Day for herself.
The votes were unanimous.
She Deserves It.
“Good for you! NTA and you’re not selfish. I’m shocked that your mother and MIL aren’t more understanding.
Also, congrats on becoming a mom! Enjoy your first Mother’s Day, don’t let them bring you down! You deserve it!”
She Was Standing Her Ground.
Another user shared this: “Sorry grandma’s – but the currently actively mothering generation gets Mother’s Day priority.
You have had 20+ years of mothers’ days about you; time for you to step back and let the person raising your grandchild get some relief from doing the busy and exhausting work of being a mother.”
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