Monday, April 4, 2011
Psychological?!!!!!
Oh my goodness gracious me, do some people never learn? My husband is a lovely man, a good bloke, a kind guy, generally exemplary in his caring of me. I've hardly been able to fault him recently. But today, he let himself down. I'm partly laughing about it, partly smarting a little. I told him I was feeling a little bit sick already, especially yesterday arvo and this morning till around 1030. Just seedy. What do you think he said? On our 5th pregnancy after nearly 7 years of marriage. "Do you think it's just psychological since you know you're pregnant?" Is he for REAL?!! He regretted saying it nearly immediately because my response wasn't pretty. I may have had a mini-tantrum. Might've nearly cried even. "No babe, no, I don't think that. I found out I was pregnant a week ago and I've been fine. On your theory, that would not have been the case. I actually feel sick because that's what pregnancy hormones do to me. Not the baby...the baby doesn't need to be even alive for me to be sick. My hormones do it. Are you for real asking me that after how you've seen me be before?!! SHEEZ!" Pause while I digested his question and he stumbled over his great apology of ever daring say that. Then, "How dare you say that? How dare you and all those other men and women who don't suffer this think that we are having psychologically sickness just because we know we are pregnant? What...when you drink copious amounts of alcohol one night then wake up with the worst hangover ever the next day, do you just psychologically think you are feeling sick because you know how much you drank? NO!! You really do feel sick and gross because the alcohol made your body that way. JUST LIKE PREGNANCY HORMONES DO TO ME!!!!!" And on that, with him still apologising and trying to bite back that one question that escaped his mouth, I rested my case. And I hope that sometime in the next few weeks, he is in my way when I need to vomit and I can show him just how PSYCHOLOGICAL 'morning sickness' is! P.S. 'MORNING sickness'?! Really, MORNING? Is that all? Oh how lovely that would be! Even the name of it downplays the feeling of it. Now wonder we have no hope in ever having true sympathy from anyone who hasn't been there. P.P.S. This does not in any way downplay my happiness about being pregnant and (hopefully) adding a third baby to our family. It's just par for the course, an inconvenience that has to be suffered to get the 'prize'. I am happy to suffer for the prize.
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Still can't figure out this paragraph thing...i tried, lots and lots of paragraphs here...till i posted it. I am not the most technological person but how hard can it be?!
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