Monday, April 1, 2013

Holidays Make It Harder

I feel so out of sorts around my family and my in laws when there are holidays to be spent together.  I basically hate it, and as much as I love the aspect of seeing the kids, it just reminds me, constantly, that I am never going to have what they have.  And it makes me sad and feel like a failure.  I wish I could be optimistic, but it's definitely not easy.  I feel, almost daily, that I did something so awful in my past that I am being punished by God and that he refuses to bless my life with a child.  I think we all feel this way, everyone in these shoes I wear. It's rough.

I really don't even like to be asked how I feel, and get the sympathy look, it's the most annoying thing in the world.  I don't want to play the martyr at all, and I try not.   I definitely feel like not part of anything.  No one wants to take mine and N's picture because we aren't a family, so why bother asking us, right?  But here let me take pictures of you and your kids and your family, because it's perfect.  I just don't think anyone knows, other than the people going through this sh*t like me, knows how it feels.  How uninvolved you feel, and tense, and anxious. 

So, that was my Easter, which I hate to even celebrate because we don't do religion in my family.  So why bother?  I wish N and I had stayed home and we could have avoided both families.  And that would have been OK.

Where is April 22?  Can't come fast enough. 

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