CreamyGoodness
Well-Known Member
So I finally pinpointed why a cringe when a couple declares "We're pregnant!" or when someone congratulates me on my pregnancy.
Its neither misplaced machismo nor unimportant semantics. I have the least undue machismo of any guy you ever met. My toenails are blue at the moment for pete's sake.
Also, I'm not trying to disconnect from parenthood nor my wife. I have been to almost every doctor's appointment, and my wife has actually asked me to stop hovering everytime she sneezes and to stop saying "ARE YOU ALRIGHT!?" at every noise she makes. Its just not that.
Finally, its not annoyance by association. This isnt "broseph", a term that idiots and ******** exclusively use. Sorry, you know it's true. Nor is this "y'all", a term that drives me crazy because legitimate southerner Paula Dean uses it constantly and her accent sounds fake somehow (even though, as I have said, she SHOULD have a southern accent). Plenty of decent people say "we're pregnant!"
No...
What it is is... its a lie. Every time my wife gets dizzy or tired or has a craving for peanutbutter icecream with pretzels crunched up in it (true story) or my unborn son roundhouse kicks her uterus, I don't know what the big deal is. WE'RE pregnant... and physically, I feel just fine. She needs to stop complaining.
See how dumb that sounds?
No. I'm going to be a father. Weare going to be parents. We are both excited and pants-crappingly terrified. We are in this together.
My wife is pregnant.
*sigh* it will pass.
Its neither misplaced machismo nor unimportant semantics. I have the least undue machismo of any guy you ever met. My toenails are blue at the moment for pete's sake.
Also, I'm not trying to disconnect from parenthood nor my wife. I have been to almost every doctor's appointment, and my wife has actually asked me to stop hovering everytime she sneezes and to stop saying "ARE YOU ALRIGHT!?" at every noise she makes. Its just not that.
Finally, its not annoyance by association. This isnt "broseph", a term that idiots and ******** exclusively use. Sorry, you know it's true. Nor is this "y'all", a term that drives me crazy because legitimate southerner Paula Dean uses it constantly and her accent sounds fake somehow (even though, as I have said, she SHOULD have a southern accent). Plenty of decent people say "we're pregnant!"
No...
What it is is... its a lie. Every time my wife gets dizzy or tired or has a craving for peanutbutter icecream with pretzels crunched up in it (true story) or my unborn son roundhouse kicks her uterus, I don't know what the big deal is. WE'RE pregnant... and physically, I feel just fine. She needs to stop complaining.
See how dumb that sounds?
No. I'm going to be a father. Weare going to be parents. We are both excited and pants-crappingly terrified. We are in this together.
My wife is pregnant.
*sigh* it will pass.