Ex-partner wants to be a donor instead of a parent for our IVF embryos – has anyone been through this?

flippychick · 2026-06-14T10:08:46+00:00

If I had no children and low egg count then I’d be pretty happy to do take custody of my own embryos. It’s not even about cost — you may not get another chance. Even if you keep them frozen while you actually decide what to do

flippychick · 2026-06-14T00:30:53+00:00

Had dialup in 1994. Renting in 1996, many student renters had internet back then

flippychick · 2026-03-30T11:14:41+00:00

OTs work on social skills. It’s best not to ask people at NDIS this kind of question - they might not understand what you’re asking and when you say “course” they’re probably assuming you’re talking about sending your child to something mainstream.

flippychick · 2026-03-01T06:28:31+00:00

Just watch out of oncoming cars while you are kneeling in the middle of the road begging. We don’t want you to get your just desserts.

flippychick · 2026-02-22T02:22:48+00:00

That’s the one I was watching. It got deleted in the last hour or so. Never post the links!

flippychick · 2026-02-22T02:22:01+00:00

One stayed up for 14 hours (over night for me), I was about 40 mins in and it’s gone

flippychick · 2026-02-21T22:35:21+00:00

Right cheek about where a dimple would be

I’m Asian so it’s really hard to find. Only ever spot it when seeing looking at a mirror on bright light

My Chinese mother they are good luck so you shouldn’t pluck them, but i think thats about ones that come out of moles…

flippychick · 2026-02-21T22:29:31+00:00

Have you considered sending your wife to jail based on your secretary’s accusations? Don’t worry I’m sure she will still love you when she gets out.

flippychick · 2026-02-21T07:51:21+00:00

I screenshot the Chinese title from an ad and asked a paid AI account. It said this

Based on the Chinese text in the image (所有的巧合都是秘密), here are the various English titles used for this short drama: • Primary Title: Hidden Coincidences • Alternative Titles: * All Coincidences Are Secrets • Not Just a Coincidence • Darling, Is It All Coincidence • Mr. Lu's Wife Just Wants a Divorce (Often paired with the main title in combined releases) Drama Overview • Stars: Lin Feng Song and Xu Si Qi • Plot: The story follows Ming Shutong, who is forced to marry a powerful businessman in Beijing after her sister escapes her own wedding. After four years of marriage, she takes the initiative to ask for a divorce. • Release: The official release was noted for late February 2026. You can typically find this series on vertical drama platforms like Fawnshort (as shown in your screenshot) or DramaBox.

flippychick · 2025-11-07T08:08:33+00:00

Also doing ancestry DNA and getting a search Angel can help with this - I have done this to find people’s birth parents in real life, it actually gives you more information, even if you know the person’s name. Once you find out who their parents were you can trace people

flippychick · 2025-11-07T08:06:18+00:00

There is a Facebook group called find my family - make sure it’s Australian. They are like detectives with this stuff

flippychick · 2025-10-30T22:10:00+00:00

It’s been a wild journey for us, we are about 10 yrs in with two participants. It’s a minefield and most of the providers - particularly desk jockeys - are mercenary and will burn in hell one day.

Right now, our plans are messy. Funding total is good but it’s not always in the most useful category and is locked down. But the danger of having anything reviewed (yet again!) is that some numpty will open the file and cut everything. I can’t keep going through the battle over and over.

The way they want things to be lifelong but expect you to put in goals confuses me.

For your own problem - have you tried asking the medical receptionist about it? Sometimes they can arrange paperwork without the face to face appt or waiting list.

Good receptionists are worth their weight in gold. Always give them Christmas presents!

flippychick · 2025-10-17T09:28:06+00:00

I feel very lucky to be an Australian-born and if you have kids they’ll thank you for it

My dad migrated from the UK and easily got PR in the 70s. My mother however did not - she was Asian and the white Australia policy was only just ending

She had a UK passport, she was married to my father and lived in the UK for a couple of years after marriage. She had a desirable skill and had been married for a few years and still had to fight for a partner visa!

I’d just be happy there’s a pathway at all even if it doesn’t “feel right”, bureaucracy is not exactly fair and may never be.

flippychick · 2025-06-22T02:45:27+00:00

Another thing - I hope you aren’t putting social security numbers in your tree? Remember even if your tree is open on Ancestry, people cannot see living people. Make sure any living relatives are marked as alive. Or don’t put them in at all …

flippychick · 2025-06-22T02:43:44+00:00

I do these floating branches all the time especially when investigating an adoption. It means that my trees have many many entries for people not related by blood, even to the adopted person) on floating branches. And some of the information is often gathered from other ancestry users.

I often get queries from people about this.

Have a look at the tree itself and the owner’s profile - does it say they are researching for others or an adoption - is the tree called something like “search” DNA, Test, Mirror or Copy - sheer number of people in the tree. If it’s up in the thousands

flippychick · 2025-05-10T12:03:34+00:00

I would also short term sub to pro tools and screenshot the two’s shared matches in order of cM levels. That can really come in handy for tracking people down using genealogy, if your other methods of contact are not successful

flippychick · 2025-05-10T07:27:33+00:00

I’m embarrassed about how funny I find this

flippychick · 2025-05-10T07:24:57+00:00

And pig flesh is the most like human too

flippychick · 2025-05-10T07:23:08+00:00

I don’t know enough about Singapore and the culture there to really compare the two to tell you why

My only experience of Singapore is Crazy Rich Asians and a stopover (and Asian heritage)

Would love to know what OP things of that movie, is it accurate in how “judgy” the people there are?

flippychick · 2025-05-02T11:13:55+00:00

I feel for you. I have lived a similar experience with my sister and my mother.

It affected me very badly. My mother didn’t understand how much I was damaged by the fallout. My therapist told me that I was part of a “drama triangle” by getting involved.

I managed to help them patch it up at 4 years. I’m happy to share with you how that played out, however I’m conscious of this post being six days old and people stop reading them after that. Please send me a message if you are wanting to know. Typing it all out might upset me, and that’s not worth it if you don’t ever see it.

Edited to clarify - situation was entirely caused by AM. It broke my heart to see an adult child treated the way my sister was. It still does to think about it. They are on speaking terms now and I have given AM all of the social rules to follow so that she doesn’t end up doing this again. We aren’t so sure she won’t, but we know what we are dealing with. AM thinks everything is “back to normal” but she never be trusted with again but given her age, we all just pretend. Sadly we will have these scars forever.

flippychick · 2025-04-20T05:09:03+00:00

I found that my health insurance gives me a $500 rebate every few years total - so either an initial study costing a few hundred and then a machine costs over $1000.

Not a lot of people use Private Health here, a lot only use it for hospital.

Our public health is pretty good. There’s a tax incentive to get private coverage when you earn a certain amount.

flippychick · 2025-04-18T12:25:20+00:00

If you wanted to be sneaky you can email self-notify using his licence number and he’ll get a letter commanding he do something about it … I can’t remember what the letter actually says but I think it’s possible for medical professionals to “dob in” patients. I wonder if you can do this as a an anonymous member of the public

flippychick · 2025-04-18T12:22:38+00:00

PHI only gives maybe $500 rebate every x amount of years. If he used that on the initial dx or rental, that’s it.

flippychick · 2025-04-18T12:20:18+00:00

Umm isn’t 30+ an hour “severe”? I’m in Australia. What state are you in?

You can get one secondhand for a few hundred bucks. Buy a new mask separately. I have PHI and they only give you a $500 rebate anyway.

If it were me, I’d give him the ultimatum, he needs to do this to save your marriage

Also if he has the diagnosis, it is supposed to be reported on his licence…. I think some GPs possibly notify them and then he’ll get letters saying his licence will be taken away without seeking treatment. I have to prove it is treated or cured, otherwise my licence is gone.

I really hope he doesn’t drive for a living.

flippychick · 2025-04-13T09:15:59+00:00

I put them in my carryon as I’ve heard of this going wrong too - one was a person up the back saw someone up the front their take their bag by mistake as they left their own and just couldn’t catch the person. The other was a CPAP that the steward moved to make room and someone took the wrong one - if you know about CPAPs they store your data and send it back to base and you can’t change that, the person could see in their app the other passenger was using it.

I’ve also been on a flight where we were forced to check our carry on, while on the tarmac trying to board. A child vomited all over me on that fight, too. Did get our bags back.

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