<r>I'm sure it's different for different people, but my feelings for my pets have nothing to do with not having/having children. I'm 29, and expecting my first human baby in December. I have always considered my dogs to be my furkids and I take that very seriously. I have been very offended by ...

<t>valerie wrote: Well, just as a wild guess... I'm thinking she is really taken aback by the<br/>
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fact of your pregnancy. Knowing no more about it than I do, that's<br/>
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what first pops out at me. SHE wanted to be the only one to have kids.<br/>
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Jealousy rearing its' ugly head ...

<t>First let me give you a very super condensed version of my situation.<br/>
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After going through a nasty divorce and an even nastier, disasterous attempt at co-parenting, my husband allowed his two children to be adopted by his ex’s new husband. They were ages three and four at the time. The ...