An Infertile’s Guide to New Year’s Resolutions
Instead of this New Year’s resolution:
Have carefully timed sex for procreation.
Make this one: Indulge in long-forgotten carnal pleasures with your significant other whenever the spirit moves you.
Instead of this New Year’s resolution:
Stock up on ovulation kits and other assorted infertility gear.
Make this one: Clean out the medicine cabinet once and for all and apply new savings to a wine club membership.
Instead of this New Year’s resolution:
Lose 10 pounds from hanging out with bored parents killing time by eating while their kids have the week off.
Make this one: Jump-start the economy - shop and show off your non-mom body in killer outfits all on sale at bargain basement prices.
Instead of this New Year’s resolution:
Sucking it up when smug moms make the wrong assumptions about why you don’t have children.
Make this one: Devise one-liners to put smug moms in their place.
Instead of this New Year’s resolution:
Spend free time researching fertility clinics and protocols.
Make this one: Spend free time napping, exercising or planning your next weekend getaway.
Instead of this New Year’s resolution:
Give up chocolate.
Make this one: Give up guilt (and its sister, blame).
Instead of this New Year’s resolution:
Suit up to fight feelings of failure.
Make this one: Banish feelings of failure from your emotional repertoire and accept that joy and fulfillment are possible once again.
Note: Encourage you to add your own replacement resolutions in the comments section below.
Have carefully timed sex for procreation.
Make this one: Indulge in long-forgotten carnal pleasures with your significant other whenever the spirit moves you.
Instead of this New Year’s resolution:
Stock up on ovulation kits and other assorted infertility gear.
Make this one: Clean out the medicine cabinet once and for all and apply new savings to a wine club membership.
Instead of this New Year’s resolution:
Lose 10 pounds from hanging out with bored parents killing time by eating while their kids have the week off.
Make this one: Jump-start the economy - shop and show off your non-mom body in killer outfits all on sale at bargain basement prices.
Instead of this New Year’s resolution:
Sucking it up when smug moms make the wrong assumptions about why you don’t have children.
Make this one: Devise one-liners to put smug moms in their place.
Instead of this New Year’s resolution:
Spend free time researching fertility clinics and protocols.
Make this one: Spend free time napping, exercising or planning your next weekend getaway.
Instead of this New Year’s resolution:
Give up chocolate.
Make this one: Give up guilt (and its sister, blame).
Instead of this New Year’s resolution:
Suit up to fight feelings of failure.
Make this one: Banish feelings of failure from your emotional repertoire and accept that joy and fulfillment are possible once again.
Note: Encourage you to add your own replacement resolutions in the comments section below.
love these!
I resolve never to make any more new year's resolutions that make me feel less adequate for not having fulfilled them later.
wishing a happy and peaceful new year to you and yours!
Very well said!
Wow, you have NO idea how much this moved and inspired me. Thank you! I needed to hear exactly this, exactly now.
I LOVE THESE.
I have to think that I will do some of these resolutions.
These are great! Instead of feeling like a failure because my reproductive system didn't work as advertised, I resolve to remember all of my accomplishments instead.
Wonderful resolutions.
I just wrote my 2008 wrap-up post and my 2009 resolution post when I decided to check out your blog. Yours is a wee bit (ok, a lot more) positive than mine. But, I was sort of moved by the Spirit to write the 2009 one.
You have really mastered blog writing!
Perfect, PJ.
I like the second one. My DH just got me a case of wine for my birthday. I'll make the most of it in 2009!
Happy New Year to all.
I have actually done all of those. Lol. Except the spirit never really moves me to pursue carnal pleasure, but I am sure if I eat more of the chocolate and have another bottle of wine it will.
I love, love, LOVE this post! It's unbelievably refreshing!!!!
Instead of....averting my eyes at every pregnant belly
Make this one: Look straight ahead and don't even notice them (like I did when I was 25!)
These are great!!
Mine is like Deathstar's:
Instead of last year's "avoid exposure to pregnant women at all costs" my 2009 resolution is to "have so much fun that I hardly notice pregnant women, and if I do, immediately think about the fabulous glass of wine I will be able to have with dinner."
Love this list PJ - a great reframing exercise!
Wow... these are great!!! YOU ROCK!!
I like these.
If I come up with anything clever . . . I'll pop back.
But, I'm not that clever these days.
Awesome! I was just talking to hubby about my New Years resolutions...Guess I should try to remember these and use these instead! LOL! Thanks! Have a great New Year!
Very nice - all of these are brilliant. If you come up with a list of any of those one-liners to put others in their place, let me know.
Yes! I love the message: don't put life on hold for IF. Live it, fully and boldly.
I hereby resolve to do just that.
I love this list! Especially the one-liners!
Pamela Jeanne,
Your posts are always compelling!
Have a fantastic New Year!!
Jeanne