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feeling pushed out by partner and mother in law

Postby bobdog007 on Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:13 pm

Hi I'm a father to be and I cannot wait!we planned or our baby and with a little persistance we got lucky,we had evrything planned moving home the lot,I've been trying me very best to take care of my partner and be involved in evrything that is going on and to the best of my knowledge my partner had full faith and confidence in me until recently she was taken in to hospital and ordere to take it easy upon leaving the hospital she told me she wanted to go back to her mothers as she felt SAFER!now I understand the mother daughter bond but this has really hurt my feelings as I'm now wondering after all my effort to show and prove I can take care of her and my child it just isn't good enough for example what if she wants to take our child back to her mothers from hospital
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Re: feeling pushed out by partner and mother in law

Postby ctay89 on Wed Oct 19, 2011 1:58 pm

I had something a little similar to this. When my wife was pregnant we were out to dinner with some people, someone asked her if she'd been thinking of any names. It was pretty early in the pregnancy, so I hadn't even thought of names yet. She immediately said, "Ya, me and my sister were talking about some names." And then she rattled a couple off. I didn't say anything then, but later on when we were alone I didn't mince words. I told her straight this was our kid and all the decisions were to be between the two of us. I told her I was dedicated, and I'd never been so serious about anything like this before, so I wasn't about to hear anything about our child second hand. If I were you I'd do the same thing. I'd make it as clear as possible how serious you are, and let her know you're ready to be a dad. Good luck!
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