"I wouldn't say I don't love my children. They're just way too much to handle, and it can be exhausting when you're with annoying children. They will ask for too much, and when they don't get it, they go wild. I was 18 when I had my first child, and I'm full of regret, yeah, so it's been a struggle ever since then."
"My ex-husband was emotionally abusive and, if I'm being completely honest with myself, forced me into getting pregnant just three months after going into labor and losing our daughter at 20 weeks. I wasn't ready, and I hadn't really had a chance to grieve - he quit his job three days into my required maternity leave, so I had to go back to work as soon as physically possible."
"Our son was 13 weeks early, spent two months in the NICU, and cost over a million dollars in his first year. Thank goodness for good insurance! Now my son is almost 7, his father hasn't been in the picture for years, and until recently, I was doing it all on my own. My son showed incredible strength to grow big enough to breathe on his own and come home,"
One parent became a mother at 18 and describes feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and full of regret for having children so young. She reports lacking a father figure, wishing she had chosen adoption, feeling like a disappointment as a mom, and seeing her children as demanding and spoiling. Another parent reports an emotionally abusive ex who pressured her into pregnancy shortly after a 20-week pregnancy loss, forced an early return to work, and later had a son born 13 weeks early who spent two months in the NICU. She raised him largely alone and focuses on giving him a strong life.
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