The forbidden question of infertility

What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain.

I am a 43 year old woman married for 10 years. So what seams to be a normal question to ask a couple, can become a question from the forbidden fruit.

Like the majority of women, my plan was quite easy. Meet the love of my love, date, get married and have children.

This beautiful dream soon turned into a nightmare. Pretty soon friends family, acquaintances wanted to know.” Is anything brewing in the uterus yet?”

This question soon became my living nightmare. Hey you, ” Anything baking in the oven?” No matter how they swayed the forbidden fruit. Soon the hot topic for that evening became my uterus and my husbands sperm. Like we’re having a “how to bake a chocolate cake” conversation.

We would both be so uncomfortable like to teenagers caught in a naughty act. And you just can’t think of a catchy liner to throw them of your cent.

We properly were advised in porn style how to conceive. Step by step and the attention to detail the least expected in the room would tip us, left us naked, exposed yet we were fully dressed.

The forbidden fruit” when will you have babies?”, “Why are you not pregnant yet?”,”Are you doing it right?”, “Don’t you want to adopt?”, “Your not getting younger”.

Seeing my husbands sad and embarrassed expression on his face.After 4 IVF, which left us broke, and depressed, I got a one liner for the forbidden fruit.

We are working overtime on that issue. How’s your sex life going?. Don’t you wish you were me?.Hook, line and sinker.

2 thoughts on “The forbidden question of infertility

  1. Hey, there! I’m new here. I just came to leave a little spark of compassion.
    In my opinion, this is one of the worst questions that anyone can be asked.
    Unfortunately, there’re lots of people out there without a single gram of thoughtfulness. However, I’m not really surprised by that.
    I sincerely wish you to achieve your dream and the courage to not let these kind of questions disturb you. You’ll always have the right to speak up for yourself and show that such conversations are not welcomed. And I’m actually sure, that most people will feel terrible if you do so.
    In such situations, you can always remember that nothing has power over you, unless you allow it.
    Stay strong and take care!

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