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She Needs Our Help After Giving Her Friend Unsolicited Advice About Infertility!

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

It happens to the best of us. What advice would you give this listener who put her foot in her mouth when talking to a friend dealing with infertility? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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the virtue. So what are you guys put your foot in your mouth and a major

0:05.4

cringe really, really badly and you have leaned on Kristen for help in this area.

0:09.9

So I got this DM on Insta and it says, hi, Kristen. I love the show. Listening to

0:15.6

you guys every morning really makes my day. You always give the best advice, which

0:19.6

is why I'm coming to you with this. I promise I have the DM to prove it. I didn't

0:22.9

just make all that up. My best friend slash sister of the last decade has

0:27.8

recently become part of the TTC. If you don't know what that is, TTC is

0:32.2

trying to conceive. But there's the TTC club trying to conceive club. It's been

0:37.2

about six months of trying with no luck. About a month ago, she had begun

0:40.7

venting in our group chat about their current struggle. We were all trying to be

0:44.8

supportive and lift her spirits and I truly put my foot in my mouth. After she

0:50.2

vented and we gave uplifting words, I tried to mention things to try that I had

0:55.7

read previously and heard from other mothers who were part of the TTC. She gave

1:00.8

unsolicited advice when she herself is not experiencing infertility. She put

1:06.0

some parentheses, which was in hindsight the absolute wrong thing to do in that

1:10.2

moment. And she rightfully asked us not to do that again and said we didn't

1:14.9

understand. In parentheses, which we don't as we've never gone through this

1:18.7

before, I just wanted to see if there was any advice you could give as someone

1:22.9

who experienced this to help us navigate these conversations later. Thanks. And

1:27.7

then she followed with another DM said, she and I spoke about it later on and I

1:31.8

apologize. She accepted we're on great terms. I would really like to avoid her

1:36.2

ever saying something. I would really like to avoid ever saying something that

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