ScorpGirl444
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Joined: 1/20/2006 Status: offline
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This is long and I apologize. The first thing I thought when I started reading this thread was: If you've made the commitment to protect and nurture your submissive, why would you just up and leave or dismiss the submissive when a challenge arose? And, who isn't a challenge every once in awhile? If you don't leave or dismiss the submissive when the challenge is not health related, why would you when it is? Then, I thought of my own situation. I thought about how my illness affects not only my D/s relationship but also my "duty" as a wife. I've mentioned my illness in a different thread but for those that don't know, I have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, PCOS. Although this isn't an illness that I'm going to die from, nor is it something that is as serious as other illnesses, it is still something that we have to deal with on a daily basis. It's something that affects me not only physically but also mentally as well. It's something that may cause endometrial hyperplasia or cancer. I'm 26 years old. My husband/Dom is also 26 years old (well, he will be in 6 days ). At this stage in my life I should be thinking about how I can blend serving with having kids. Besides having had pressure on both sides of the family as to when we were going to start trying, it's something that should be a natural thing to do at this point in my life. Unfortunately, with all the medicines I was taking, with all of the bloodwork that has been done on me and with my reproductive endocrinologist's help, there is no way I'm going to be able to conceive. When I finally came to terms with that, it hit me pretty hard. All I've ever wanted in life was to have kids. I wanted 4 boys but I would deal with girls if I had them too. I even started picking out names for them. All at once I had to stop thinking about having kids and what their names would be and how happy I was going to be. It wasn't going to happen for me, not naturally. This doesn't sound like it would affect my ability to serve. I didn't want it to, I wasn't going to let it. It did, however, affect my marriage. I went to my husband one day, crying, and told him that I would understand if he wanted to leave me. He didn't understand what I was talking about which forced me to have to say the words. I said, I can't give you children. I can't do what a wife is supposed to do. (I know what you're thinking...wives don't HAVE to have kids. We wanted them so in my situation it was what I'm supposed to be able to do) It came as a shock to me that he thought I was crazy. He wanted to know why I thought he would want to leave. All I could keep saying through my tears was that I wasn't able to have kids... I now know that he's not going to leave me because of this but we do still have to deal with this illness everyday. If I'm making lunch or dinner or anything, I always make sure he gets his food first. I make sure he's set up with food and drink and whatever else he could need, then I take care of myself. There are times when I can't do that. If we've been out for awhile or it's just been awhile since we last ate there is a chance that my blood sugar will drop. It's not a nice drop, it drops so suddenly I feel it everywhere and sometimes it makes me not able to lift my arms. I'm not diabetic but it does screw with my insulin. Usually I make sure I'm ok and every few hours I'll make sure I've had at least a little something so that doesn't happen. There are times, however, when that's not possible. It's those times that he has to take care of me. I'm stubborn. I can't stand when he has to help me. I'm always like..no, that's my job. He has to almost sit me down on the couch and tell me not to move and that he will take care of things. I also still have days when all I want to do is cry. I want to be able to adopt but the process is so expensive that I don't know if that's going to be a feasible option for us. I am reminded every month (girly reasons) that this is the hand I was dealt. Every month I get pains inside as an egg tries so desperately to leave my ovaries but gets caught and just sticks to it. I can't tell you the sharp pains that I've dealt with when that happens. Every month I'm reminded that I can't give him something that is so simple to others, something that crack addicts and teens seem to be able to do so well. It makes me feel so completely unworthy of being female. He's never going to leave my side because of it and I have at least that to comfort me. ~Scorp~
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