Their hearts were set on having children, but after several failed rounds of IVF, the woman knew she had to give up. Then her husband’s mother gave her a birthday present she couldn’t take.Since their first date, a 35-year-old woman and her 37-year-old husband had talked about having kids. She told her husband that she was ready to have five kids if that was what it took to have a family.
The woman knew it was time to start trying to have the family she had always dreamed of after they got married. They tried to have a child, but it didn’t work out.They went through several rounds of IVF, which the woman said was the worst thing she had ever been through. Something happened after her last failed IVF attempt that made her realize she needed to stop trying.
The woman said that her husband had cried himself to sleep every night for weeks after the last failed IVF try. She was so upset that she thought her body was letting them both down.After seeing how disappointed her husband was and feeling it herself, she knew she was done. She said, “I told my husband I was done trying, and he understood.”Even though the woman’s husband knew why she didn’t want to do any more IVF rounds, his family didn’t and begged her to do them all over again so they could have another child.
The woman could no longer handle it after one birthday. The woman said she was done with IVF and would not do another round under any circumstances, even though her husband’s family, especially his mother, put pressure on her. Then it was the woman’s birthday, and the family of her husband came to a party that her in-laws had thrown for her to give her gifts. There were toys, clothes, and other things for babies in each gift.
These gifts made the woman feel lost. When she finally opened her mother-in-law’s gift, she saw a check and a pair of baby socks. When the woman asked her mother-in-law about it, her mother-in-law’s answer made her angry. She stated, “I asked why she was giving me money for another round of IVF after I said I was done trying.”The woman knew the check was for more IVF because it was the exact amount she would have had to pay for more.
God had been telling her that this was the time to do it, so her mother-in-law said she hoped she would do it one last time. The woman was very angry and told her mother-in-law that she didn’t know how hard it was on her emotionally, mentally, and physically to go through IVF, especially since it didn’t work out in the end. The woman broke down in tears when she thought about how her husband’s family only saw children when they looked at her. She felt bad that she couldn’t give them any children.
My wife’s mother-in-law tried to fight with her, but she just put down the gift and left the party. The man’s family said the woman was selfish because she was making choices that meant the family couldn’t have a new member.The woman’s mother-in-law and the rest of her family said she had crushed their hopes of ever having a child because she had stopped IVF without even talking to them first and turned down her mother-in-law’s gift.
Her husband, who wasn’t at the party because he was with a friend, told her she should have taken the gift instead of leaving early because she was rude. Netizens were asked by the woman if her response showed that she was being selfish. A lot of people told her she wasn’t.