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#it never fails to bemuse me how some people in my life (mainly coworkers i'm not at all close with) will try to tell me that i--#--NEED to have kids and that i'll regret it one day if i DON'T have kids cos doing so is such an enrichment to one's life#and then five seconds later they'll complain about all the ways in which their kids have affected or are affecting their lives negatively#''my house is always messy and my marriage is more of a roommate arrangement than anything else and all my extra income--#--goes towards my kids aka i never have anything to spend on myself and my kid's behavioral issues are crippling the entire household--#--and i can't laugh without peeing and dinner is a daily battle cos my kid will only eat hot dogs and i haven't gone on a vacation that--#--didn't involve a waterslide and/or a petting zoo for nine years and i can't rmbr the last time i had more than five minutes to myself--#--and my entire identity and all my hobbies went out the window when i had children but....it's so rewarding and i highly rec:)))''#like.....it's not that i doubt that if i had a kid i'd love it and be prepared to die to protect it but why the actual fuck would i want to#--enrich my life by having one when the way you're talking is making it sound like doing so would come at the expense of pretty--#much everything that currently brings happiness and fulfillment to my life?!#s/o to the coworker who (drunkenly) went ''i love my kids more than anything else in the whole fucking world but idk if i'd have them if--#--i could go back and choose again'' at a party this summer tho. that one felt more tied to a reality i can comprehend lmao
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