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I already have a son named Francis. I’m obsessed with the name. I’m now pregnant again.. another boy. We pretty set on Malcolm. Just wondering if anybody else took inspiration! Lol

When I was pregnant with my son Francis I kept rewatching the show because for some reason every time he’s in a scene, everybody address him as Francis directly and used his name everytime they speak to him. I loved the way it sounded in conversation! Gonna have my Malcolm and Francis 🥰

Me 22F and DH 22M have SD5 and BS2. Backstory they got pregnant as teens were never together while she was pregnant or after. She has BPD so she has constantly been making high risk choices. Originally when he filed for custody at 18 he got full physical custody they had 60\40 then eventually 50/50. During the 50/50 she used about 60% of her allotted parenting time. Saying she couldn’t het her this week etc. In June 2025 she essentially agreed to let SD live w us fulltime (she was living with an alleged pedophile and wanted to avoid court) She agreed to do daytime visits and essentially not her have daughter at her house/overnights anymore. I went into it hoping I could help with their relationship I even let her have me on socials so she could keep up while she didn’t live with her. She did 3 visits between June & July, She then proceeded to go 100+ days without seeing her when she lives within a 10 minute drive. I ended up block her because the lack of interest in her child in September. So from July to November SD didn’t see her mom. After I blocked her she started up visits again. They agreed to 1 hour a month in a public setting. She did 2-3 visits and everytime SD came home she would feel worse and anxious. BM had a visit set and never confirmed or showed up to it. We let her know about the anxieties SD was having and these traumatic memories she was bringing up. They had a conversation again where this time BM said when SD wants to see her she can and she’ll just basically leave her alone. We told SD that she can see her mom whenever she’d like and SD said she wasn’t interested. I want to preface she’s called me mom since June. Now I am basically asking how do I cope now with the fact her mom is never coming back? Like when she did the visits I was still holding space for that being her mom but now that she’s gone I feel the only way I can parent her without annoyance is if I fully consider her my own child. Right now I’m in this weird limbo where I don’t see her as fully mine so I get annoyed when I see BM out (she goes to bars 24/7) just living her life while her child is here clearly feeling abandoned. She essentially confirmed this last week to me personally she has no real interest in fixing what she broke and that SD can just contact her when she’s older. I just want to know if it gets better or easier? I feel so much resentment because I now am a fulltime mom of two. My husband has two jobs and closes 5/7 days a week so I have both kids almost every night. I get so angry and jealous she got to just opt out of the responsibility and obviously I’m only 22 so 2 kids is a lot. I just want to move on but I can’t help but be SO resentful to BM. And obviously it breaks my heart SD has been fully abandoned by the person who’s supposed to love her most. I don’t know how you grow an entire child and just leave them.