The suffering olympics
Now that my son is 2.5 and more independent, and she realises that she cant force him into her lap and hold him hostage, we actually have a fairly good relationship again.
But sometimes it gets annoying to talk to her because shes constantly trying to tell me how much harder she has it (see previous post). This time its because im pregnant again and it was about how she couldnt believe how she worked right until the end with her first because she had to commute far via train to get to work and it wasnt easy cause the trains here are not like the trains in India and went on and on about it. And im like yeah thats tough and spoke about my experience and how I worked until 3 days before I gave birth with my first and i found it tough being on my feet all day at work (nurse here) and shes like oh, I thought you worked at a desk. It baffles me because she knows im a nurse 🧐 And then she ended the conversation instead of also acknowledging that it may have also been hard for me too 😆
Granted she also stopped working after her first and had mutiple people/staff clean, cook, raise her kids. Im working pregnant full time with a toddler, which is totally fine, to each their own but I never go out of my way to say how hard my life is and parade around how amazed I am at myself for handling it but she seems to love making it aound like her life is 100x harder than mine somehow 😂
Im sure shes just trying to relate the best way she knows how or just make conversation so I dont take it too personally but it makes me laugh.