I don't know why but there are some people who really get off on touching a pregnant woman's belly. They know no boundaries. They will touch your obviously pregnant belly without any concern for personal space. This happened to me, at work, all the time.
One guy, in particular, felt it was necessary to touch my belly any time he saw me. He would walk right up to me, his arm outstretched, and plant his open hand right on my person. Sometimes the hand landed on the top of my bump, sometimes it landed more towards the bottom of the bump which was way too close to an area that only my husband and gynecologist had any right to wander towards. It didn't matter how many times I pulled back, moved his hand away or outright told him to beat it...his hand was like a pregnant belly magnet.
Management knew he was doing this. Management thought it was funny...they thought it was cute. This was one of their "boy wonders" they had recruited to work in the office. You know, the "boy wonders" that are drop dead gorgeous and/or had played some type of high profile sport in college. The kind that move up through the ranks like a hot knife cutting into butter. Super smooth transitions into jobs that they were not qualified for or had experience in performing.
Those kind.
I still will never understand why someone feels they have the right to walk up to a pregnant woman and touch her belly without permission. I guess there is some twisted psycho-social need to touch something that is growing in another human.
Hi, What are your thoughts on pregnancy journals/ video diaries? what you say?
Posted by: Portrait photography | August 07, 2009 at 11:31 AM
This guy at work...sounds like he is going too far. Or he is actually trying to get you upset...must be very uncomfortable for you!
Posted by: pmnyc | September 20, 2010 at 12:28 PM
the teenage pregnancy rate in the 1950s and 1960s was higher than today, the teenage marriage rate was also higher; in 1960 the percentage of unmarried teenage births was 15 percent, compared with 75 percent today. Many social commentators argue that the decline in teenage marriage has contributed to the rise in poverty and welfare dependence of single mothers.
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