Why is it than when people find out you're trying to conceive, they become afraid to tell you when they are pregnant? I just had a friend from college...one of my very best friends from college and one of only 3 I've kept in touch with since...tell me via email she's 13 weeks pregnant and has been afraid to tell me. For goodness sake, I wouldn't hurt a pregnant woman....well, at least I will promise not to cause permanent damage to her or her fetus.
Seriously, 13 weeks is a long time to keep that a secret from me. I told another friend of mine the situation and she agreed, only she told me an even worse story from her experience. Her sister-in-law is expecting, and also waited a very long time to spill the beans to her brother and his wife (my friend) because she was afraid they'd get upset. That in itself is annoying, but to make matters worse, since it was within a family circle, not only did she NOT tell them, she told everybody else within the family not to tell them, making my friend look like an unstable psycho to her entire in-law family. Who's with me on this one?
I can't blame anybody for being afraid to approach the subject, but infertile people are not going to attack those who are having better luck. We are sad, we are angry, we are confused, we are disappointed and sometimes we are jealous...but those feelings aren't directed at other individuals necessarily, they're directed abstractly at the universe, or at God or however you want to classify "fate".
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