When you are a woman, when you are told you are 'infertile', it is by far the most harsh word to hear. I am 'infertile', I conceived via IVF via Monash University on my first go. My 'infertility' was caused due post ectopic pregnancy and due to health issues. IVF was my only avenue.
Interestingly enough though having married a Westerner, I would too hear, "I never complained about not having more children", but it was only code for not having a boy, and yes one day I would hear that too. Sad, but I found the latter more devastating. Us women have such burdens to carry, but it is really ignorance, no matter how enlightened the 'soul' is or rather thinks he is.
I leave you with this film:
It's a Girl! Documentary Film - Official TrailerIf some of you have wondered why you are my friend, but very MALE, I will now tell you. My Father so wanted a boy, I arrived, being the third girl and thus he settled on me ... vanity as I look like him. He put that energy that normally goes into a boy (imprint) into me and, in the process, I learned to connect with men on a one to one basis as friends. Interestingly enough, I have one female close friend (I also have the friendship of your beloved ladies ... plus for me) and the rest seem to be men. Yup, odd is it not ... Five years later after my birth, a Brother would arrive and then two more but my dad was hooked. It seemed vanity was more powerful a drug to him ... I only recently recognized this, when my grandmother seemed lost looking at me ... and I smiled and realized she was remembering her son whilst looking at me.
Interestingly enough I came here to post something positive.
Mr. Green yup, I consider you a friend
as wicked as you are at times and funny beyond measure.
p.s. thank you Mike.