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How to handle family pressure about having children

My mother-in-law asked again when we are giving her grandchildren and I lied and said we are not ready yet because I cannot bear to see pity in her eyes.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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We protect others from our pain by hiding it, but this protection becomes its own form of suffering.

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