It's been months of trying, but still no joy. She's exhausted and terrified. You hold her close and know that you're falling in love.
Polycystic ovaries. Polycystic fucking ovaries. My body literally does not want to have a baby.
It wants me to not be able to control my weight. It wants me to have cysts on my ovaries. It wants me to have excess hair and have a baby.
No. No thank you. I just feel so stupid because why didn't I go to the doctor sooner? Why did I not think? I just.
.. I don't know. I thought being a woman was kind of like, you're probably gonna be able to have a baby.
So there's my arrogance. And there's a lesson to learn from this. Don't be an arrogant fuck because your body might not do what it's supposed to do and yeah.
I can't have kids. No, it's harder. It's a lot, lot harder and I need to have tests and I need to be probed and prodded and have people look at me and wonder, huh, so why exactly can't you have a baby?
Why can't you have a baby? I'm so stupid. Yes, I am.
I just thought, I don't need a man. Not obviously I need a man, but you know, you don't have to be the dad. I can do this.
I didn't want to do it without dad. I wanted. ..
I wanted me and this other person to just fall in love and have a baby and raise it and all that cliched shit. I mean, just. ..
Why did I think it was gonna be that easy? It's not easy. Nothing's easy.
Not even your biological destiny is easy. Why? Why can't I do it? Why can all these other women just do it? And I can't? Am I such a fucking failure? Fuck.
I know. I know I'm not gonna give up, but you know when you just feel like, really? Really, could I not just get some slack? Please.
And I know I'm not being sex trafficked across Asia, or I don't have an incurable disease, or. .. You know, I know, I know, but.
.. I just see these other women, and they have babies by accident. A lot of them are really nice moms.
But I just feel like. .. It's not fair.
But nothing in life is fair, so. .. I just need to be a big baby, cry, and just keep on going, because.
.. I really want a baby. So, if I have to be poked, and prodded, and asked what the fuck is wrong with you, then I'll do it, because my baby deserves a mom who would do that.
Ew. I can't give up. I'm so sorry.
You're already doing me a huge favor, and I'm like, hey, you want some emotional baggage, too? It's like this was just supposed to be. ..
An emotional baggage. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
It's like this was just supposed to be. .. In and out.
Shake that jizz all about. It's like, surprise. You got malfunctioning ovaries.
And it's gonna be a struggle, so. .. Strap in.
Listen. I know you're my friend, and I know you love me. But if this is all too much, I really, really can't.
No, I'm not being silly. This is intense, and upsetting, and. ..
Building up your expectations to then be shattered over, and over, and over, and over again, so. .. You can still be my friend and step back.
That won't change anything. Buy it, borrow it, steal it. That's if people sell their sperm.
Can't be that hard to get. I want you as involved as you want to be. I love you.
And I know you love me. But that doesn't mean you have to support me in this. Just be my friend.
Like you always are. There's, um. ..
Treatments they can try. Of course, some medicines and stuff. I think the bottom line is it can happen, it can.
.. Potentially get pregnant, it's just hard. So.
.. They essentially said, if you're gonna do this, you're gonna have to put in the work and roll up your sleeves, so. ..
That is what I am gonna have to do, and. .. You know what? I'm gonna cry, and I'm gonna throw temper tantrums, and.
.. Feel like, really, but. ..
I am doing this because. .. I want that baby.
.. To know that I did everything possible. I want to be a mom worthy of the name.
But that doesn't mean you have to be my sperm donor. Or their dad, obviously. I mean what I always say.
I don't want you to do anything you don't feel comfortable doing. If I lost you as a friend, I. ..
No. I don't want to lose you. Don't even want to think.
Thank you. Thank you. No, no.
I've cried on your shoulder, and I will pull myself together and go home. Thank you.