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Warning...a small vent ahead.

Awhile back when DD was still very young I was basically told not to visit my DH's friend's house with him. Why? Because I'm nursing. No biggie. I figured it was the woman's issue since she has some big ones. It made me angry because I didn't have friends. I may not have agreed with their life but I wanted to interact with them. For the next.,..oh geez...almost a year I didn't hang out with these people. They made a point of not inviting me over and of not inviting me to do things. Whatever. It's their issue.

We have since moved. I couldn't be any happier to get away from these people. They bugged me.


So me and DH are sitting here, each of us on our computers when said guy calls. They do their chit chat and suddenly DH says that I'm sitting here so I start paying attention to the conversation. I had no idea I was being mentioned since I was busy reading away.

The guy was asking if I was still nursing and then went on to explain how his cat is still doing it and it's unnatural. "It's like having a teenager hanging off your tit". I tried to avoid the conversation and didn't really say anything. I know they already have issues, I didn't need to get into it with him.

DH says they have brought it up a few times because they think "it's inappropriate".

First off: Why is MY nursing even a topic of conversation for him?
Secondly: WHY do you even care!!??

I'm not sure why this is making me as angry as it is. Seriously, why does he care? Why is it even in his mind to ask if I am still nursing? I think it's more the shock that it has been an ongoing thing for them since they banished me from their home. They were worried their teenage sons would "see" something. Meanwhile their former stripper mom is prancing around in see through tops. (Seriously, the night it became an issue that was what was going on and her son made a comment about her).

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Why is your dh still friends with these people? They sound really nosy and drama-seeking.

I'm sorry that they said/did things that made you feel bad or uncomfortable. You're right, and they're wrong, and also wierd.


HTH.
 

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Thanks. Oh you have no idea how weird they are......you must have missed my last post about them.
 

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The guy is comparing a child who is at most a toddler to a teenager?

"Has issues" doesn't even begin to cover it.

Why is your DH not pointing out that the only inappropriate thing going on is Their obsession with HIS family?
 

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Weird. I don't get the cat thing, either. The cat is nursing an unnaturally long time? WTF?

As my mother would say, consider the source & ignore it. As someone else once said, they don't have issues, they have a subscription!
 

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OMG, that is one of the things that annoys me the very most about our anti-breastfeeding culture... it's okay for women to wear clothes that accentuate and exhibit their breasts for men to admire and covet, but god FORBID a breast be seen serving in a non-sexual context. what a great way to start your teenage boys out with a unhealthy view of womens' bodies!!
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