There is a woman that I am friends with at work, and she is 41, never been married, or had children. She does have a niece, and babysat her when she was a baby, so she does have experience being around children. I also have nieces and nephews, but I never fully understood what it meant to be a mother until I had my son 5.5 years ago.
Her god-daughter recently had a baby girl, and is spending more time with other mothers instead of my friend and she is feeling a little bitter towards her. The god-daughter, instead of always coming to my friend like she has always done, is now always going to another woman that has children and it is bothering my friend. She feels like she has the experience being as though she "raised" her niece.
In my opinion, you may have experience but if you arent a parent, wether you adopted or gave birth, then you really dont know what its like to well, be a parent. I think my friend is over reacting and I dont want to hurt her feelings, but I feel like she shouldnt be so sensitive and be glad that her god-daughter wants to be around other mothers.
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