1 [Report This]Date: October 31, 2024 01:42 pm Title: Pregnancy Woes
Cute conversation between Jim and Gerald.
Really like the ending here where they come up with their compromise before their talking head, nice way to work that in!
Author's Response:
Thank you!
their bickering and lack of closeness in this season REALLY bothered me, so I need a reason why. Glad this worked out well :)
1 [Report This]Date: October 30, 2024 08:12 pm Title: Pregnancy Woes
Love the fatherly advice Jim is getting here. Great words of wisdom from Gerald in how to deal with some of these feelings. People tend to forget or gloss over the fact that men can and do have big feelings when it comes to pregnancy. Seeing the woman they love go through something so extreme and not knowing what to do can really stress a guy out. What is helpful one day will get his head bitten off the next. Yet many guys have it thrown in their face something along the lines of, "you're not the one giving birth so shut up!" Is it really any wonder why many guys tend to just hold things in?
Not Jim here though. He gets to have a great heart to heart with his father and it looks like it paid off really well. That Pam seems so taken on the idea of a weekend away is great. I imagine the idea of floating in a tub and letting some of the pressure off would be akin to heaven at that point. Great job as usual.
Author's Response:
You are darn right. I have seen so many men who are adrift without support, who struggle with postpartum anxiety of their own and who feel so untethered from the partner they love so much. I wanted to highlight that emotions are just reactions and to have that come from someone he loves and respects, that it is okay to be confused and angry.
1 [Report This]Date: October 28, 2024 03:54 pm Title: Pregnancy Woes
So lovely to see you post again! I miss your stories! I think this is one of my favorite ones of yours. You do such a sweet job of exploring these canon moments and they’re all very real. I just started listening to OL again and I’m in season 8 with all the weepiness, Pam’s Replacement, Big Pregs Little Pregs so this was perfect timing for me! I love that you deal with their difficult emotions as well as their joyful emotions. I’m glad that Jim had an outlet like his dad to listen. Don’t we all need the reminder that it’s okay to be angry, but that we can’t live in it? It such a great reminder via this scenario. Jim needed to let out that energy of anger about this pregnancy being so different than Cece— and it was extremely healthy. It also fits with this season 8 Jim who has been seeming to walk on eggshells this whole pregnancy with Pam. I love that when she needs him, he’s there— and vice versa. What a sweet little weekend away for them! Great job on this as usual. You’re so spot on with the emotions as always.
Author's Response:
I have had a rough year, but trying to come on back and at a minimum finish off the stories I started :)
I am so pleased this piece hit well. The last two seasons hurt so much, my feelings about how the writers kind of 'gave up' trying to write good Jim & Pam. Seemed they only had the 'when will they' story heart but once married and simply content parents they didn't know what to do with them. I hated seeing how little they touched once Pam was pregnant with Phillip, no more cute things between then and I wanted to call that out in a way that seemed to make sense to me. So glad I brought the right level of emotion and support from a little-known character.