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🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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0:00.0 | Infertile neighbour says, I'm not allowed to sunbathe in my yard because I'm pregnant? |
0:06.0 | And it upsets her. |
0:08.7 | My husband, 29, and I, 28, have been living here for five years, ever since we married. |
0:14.8 | Our previous neighbours were an adorable couple in their 60s or 70s, and we had a fairly good relationship, and we were kind of sad when |
0:21.9 | they left. This year, I gave birth to my son, who's now six months old. My new neighbors, |
0:27.3 | let's call them Paul and Anna, moved in when I was two months pregnant. We weren't friends, |
0:32.8 | but we'd say hi to each other here and there. I sunbathe every day. It's something I've been doing since |
0:38.8 | childhood. I was a very anemic kid and my mum helped me to do it to help with my anemia. I don't |
0:44.7 | even know if it works, but it is a habit that helps me start my day. This was not a problem until my |
0:50.0 | pregnancy became apparent. The left side of the yard has two kinds of fences, one low, about |
0:56.6 | one and a half metres, that used to have a hedge on the neighbour's side, and Paul and Enna cut it down, |
1:02.1 | and one tall a fence, two metres around the rest of the backyard. It's hard to see it from the ground, |
1:07.4 | but they can still see our whole yard and part of our main floor from their |
1:11.1 | second floor. When I was five months pregnant, Paul told my husband that my sunbathing was making |
1:16.5 | them uncomfortable. I sunbathe in shorts and tank tops, nothing out of the ordinary. I just ignored |
1:22.3 | them and kept my routine. The following month, he complained again. Complained every month until the eighth month of my pregnancy. |
1:29.3 | I was back from a walk with my husband and Anna was in front of the house. Once she saw me, |
1:34.5 | she stormed inside and slammed the door. The following day, Paul came to our house and told us |
1:40.4 | they have fertility problems and seeing me pregnant was making her heavily uncomfortable, |
1:45.5 | and I was an insensitive witch. Currently, I'm working from home, and the baby is close to me |
1:50.4 | in a playpen in the living room, and we have another in the backyard on the terrace, so I can |
1:55.4 | have him close to me when gardening or just playing with him. Well, apparently, I made his wife |
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