Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: wideawake
But He did mean that they were one.

In a spiritual sense, yes. But they don't occupy the same body.

The thing that bothers me about the whole "we are pregnant" thing is that the man is trying to equate his experience with his wife's. That is simply not so. You can try to understand, you can be supportive, some men even walk around with those silly empathy bellies. But they aren't pregnant. They don't feel the discomfort, they don't feel the same way about the baby moving, they don't give birth. They don't have the same connection. Is the connection every bit as valid? Of course. But it is different.

WE are not pregnant. The woman is. I'm sorry guys can't experience it in the same way. But it is a fact.

59 posted on 04/12/2007 2:25:05 PM PDT by Dianna
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies ]


To: Dianna

Men can’t experience being pregnant, and women can’t experience having a pregnant spouse.

If anything, the worries and fears associated with pregnancy were greater for me than for my wife. I didn’t know what was going on, I didn’t know how she was doing, and I couldn’t do anything to help.

Reality usually is that challenges in life are felt hardest by those providing support, not those going through it. Is it harder to have a kid who is sick, or is it harder to be the sick child?


65 posted on 02/27/2008 8:25:44 PM PST by bone52
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 59 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson