My sister
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I agree with the sentiment that in the long run this can have a positive impact and the prospect of being an uncle and having something take the heat of my mom's constant requests for a grandkid will be a welcome relief. I found out the boyfriend was planning on proposing in the near future so I'm hopeful that he will step up to the plate on this as that will make the whole situation that much smoother.
The initial sadness was over the fact that my sister is immature and not really cut out to handle this at the moment. Fortunately people can surprise you every once in a while and this situation would hopefully grow her up a bit. I'm also sad because I know she's going to have to reevaluate her life and her plans and that just hurts me to know she might miss out on some of the things she wanted to do. I kinda grieve with her more than for her in that regard.
My parents are the wild card. I could possibly see this splitting them up for various reasons I won't get into. And if my sister decides to terminate the pregnancy, well, my mom used to bring me with her when she would march in front of Planned Parenthood when I was 10ish. So that would cause no shortage of intense drama. And if my mom finds out after the fact and knows that I knew and didn't stop it, well the outcome of that is less than desireable.
For now I'm going to concentrate on the potential positive outcome and prepare myself for an ungodly amount of late night calls and constant support for them and not worry about the negatives until I have to.
*crosses fingers really hard.