BellaOnline Forums Relationships Married No Kids If I have hear "we are pregnant"!?

Methinks that would be embarrassing for the guy.

Perhaps. But unless he's a member of a royal family and has the perogative of using "we" in the royal sense, he's made a statement which can not possible be true and which he fully expects you to buy into.

Let me see... last time I checked, I haven't run into any royalty in my day to day life. So I think I can assume that I'm safe to assume the royal we is not being used.

I hate this phrase too...I always try to say, "Oh no - you mean SHE is pregnant." They hate it, but it is true. A man cannot be pregnant. If the man wants to be included, they should say "We are going to have a baby." That makes more sense.

Ug! That phrase is a pet peeve of mine too. I agree the guys who say that are usually the sensitive, new age guys who just want everyone to think "how sweet", and know how INTO being a father they are. Ick.

Hahahaha..

I actually like this phrase IF (and this is a big IF) the bloke 'acts' as though he is pregnant..

Say I change my mind (highly, highly unlikely) and decide to get preggers... Riiight, so that means no alcohol for 9 months.. certain other foods are off limits.. obviously no smoking ... and I won't be able to go on planes past a certain time... no late nights in the pub or anywhere with smokers...

So... if my partner agrees to not drink for 9 months, comes to all my weird pregnancy appointments etc.. then sure, 'we' are pregnant...

However, I would say most men like saying 'we' are pregnant as they feel more ownership on the situation 'we'll decide if we go ahead with this pregnancy'.. er no, sorry mate.. womans body.. womans choice... 'we're pregnant' .. erm.. well technically 'she' is pregnant ...

The amusing thing is... when the woman is sat at home, really huge .. how many times will the guy be there with her? how many times at parties will the guy get his pregnant wife an orange juice and have a beer himself? oh riiiight, so 'we're pregnant when it suits the guy.. but 'she' is pregnant when it doesn't...

I swear.. Mr Linux would be tea total and be at home after work every single day if I was... and if he did decide to drink I would probably try and match him just to make a point.

'we're pregnant' = 'we go through everything together, including the [censored] bits'...

I have the feeling that several years ago someone said "we are pregnant" on a TV show or something to be cute; it happened to be funny at the time; but now it is old hat and cliched because it's been used too much.

I hate cliched, naff things.

My mom told me last night that S and K were pregnant. I said, "Both of them? Did someone alert the tabloids?!" My mother is very supportive of my CFness, but lately things (this included) have taken her aback. I'm starting to get little tiny alarm bells.

Jase - if only it did take two adults to survive a pregnancy. There'd be fewer single moms at least.

So, does this apply to breast cancer, and prostate cancer? "We were just diagnosed with cancer." Same life changing theory applies- i mean when one person has cancer the WHOLE family is really a part of it. Maybe not correct for polite converstaion, but a good analogy of how absurd of a saying this is.

When I said it took two, I was refering to the couples who say "we're preggos".

Realistically it's only one person who is prego and thats it. she has the baby, thats it. However if it is a couple going through the trials and tribulations of being prego... I see nothing wrong with the phrase "we"