Breaking Generational trauma/cycles

Hello everyone! I am pregnant for the first time, 10 weeks! I am the eldest sibling in my family, and the first one on my mom side to have a child in my generation.
Before I became pregnant, I had started cutting ties and distancing myself from a lot of family, because I see how some generational traumas are continuing throughout our bloodline and I am not OK with it. Especially around discussions of safe touch and religion.

Now that my family knows I’m pregnant, I’m torn between allowing them the opportunity to build a relationship with myself in this stage of life, or continuing the distance while I figure out what I want mommy life to look like for me.

I’m wondering if anyone has had similar struggles? It feels so scary to be walking away from my family, but I’ve never fully felt like I belong, and I do not want that for my child either.

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