Babies are ruining all my favourite holidays (just call me a cynical bastard)
*Second seriously salty rant ahead. Don’t read if you are a serial baby photo poster. You’ve been warned . . .
My relationship with my husband is one of the things in my life that I couldn’t be happier with at the moment. Infertility has brought us closer in an ‘us against the world’ kind of way. So with Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years all being a struggle this year, I was really looking forward to Valentine’s Day . . . until it happened.
Opening up social media today and it seems that Valentine’s Day has morphed into yet ANOTHER kid centered holiday (like we didn’t have enough already). Every post I see has a baby adorned in hearts, or covered in kiss marks (and a pregnancy announcement, seriously ?!?) All read captions like ‘My one true love’ or ‘He has my heart.’ Husbands are you mad about this? Because my first nine posts today were mom and baby only, no mention of a spouse. Did you all collectively forget Valentine’s Day and anger your wives, or are you just forgotten?
Deep down I know I should just be grateful that I am in a happy and committed relationship today. I am so blessed in that way. Really I think I was just looking forward to one holiday that didn’t automatically link love and happiness to having a child.