Wow, this is certainly a very powerful dream that seems to clearly represent your situation. Coincidentally, I was watching a documentary called “Rebel Pope” last night on the National Geographic channel. It is a story about the early life of Pope Francis and it had a scene that reminds me of your situation. Early in his career, a young Jorge Bergoglio continued to study medicine primarily to please his mother, even though his real passion was religion. When he posed this dilemma to a professor, she told him, “You can follow your “head” or you can follow your “heart,”” so a determined Jorge chose the seminary over the pleadings of his mother. Ultimately, she was very proud of him and attended his ordination.
In a similar fashion, you have a decision to make. Your logical mind, “head” in this analogy, is represented by your cousin in the dream. It reasons that it would be much easier to walk away from this responsibility, probably for a host of factors to include, career, finances, dealing with the baby’s father and both families, etc, etc. Your emotional mind, “heart” is a very powerful motherly instinct directing you to keep the child, which, on the surface appears like the more difficult decision, but the one you will probably make. I hold this “opinion” because you chose your cousin (someone a little further removed than yourself) to be the one representing your logical mind, and you chose yourself as the person trying to rescue the child out of love and desperation.
Additionally, let me tell you another short story that might help in your decision. My son, an electrical engineer, and his girlfriend were both heroin addicts. She was about 7 months clean and he still using when she became pregnant. When he called to tell us, we congratulated him, but I had many obvious concerns. After all, how could two people trying to keep themselves alive possible try and bring another life into the world? Also, would this new child be born healthy? Now, a year after the arrival of our new granddaughter, I am embarrassed at these earlier sentiments. Not only has she brought immense joy into ours lives, but she is directly responsible for a remarkable transformation in her parents, who are now leading normal lives together after 10 years of addiction. She has been an absolute miracle, and we could never imagine life without her, so please don’t underestimate how wonderful and incredible a decision to keep life can be for “everyone” concerned. I may be wrong about your decision, but either way I’m sure you will survive. Good luck with this difficult choice.
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