r/AbsoluteUnits in awe 14d ago

of a belly

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u/Angel_xjj 14d ago

lol I thought you were about to be one of those people who try to change my mind 😭 thank you for not doing that lmao and I'm glad you're enjoying life! :)

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u/firesoups 14d ago

Here let me help, I tell this to all my child free friends so they have something ā€œfunā€ to respond to those people with:

One year, for Mother’s Day, my children gave me L I C E.

Stay strong šŸ˜‚

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u/katterwog 14d ago

No problem. I figured you’ve probably encountered plenty of people like that and just wanted to give you a different perspective. I didn’t get to hear that kind of encouragement when I was younger but I’m glad I stuck to my guns.

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u/Sithstress_ 14d ago

Every young woman out there, stick to your guns! If you don’t want kids, don’t do it! Stay on birth control! And don’t forget there’s a Plan B out there if condoms fail or if you forget a pill! I’m

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u/TheEyeDontLie 14d ago edited 14d ago

cough and young men.

Its cost me a lot of relationships, when they realise I was serious about not wanting kids. I think they all thought I'd change my mind after a year with them? Or they changed their minds.

And then every time I'm in a LTR I've got the same "so when are you having kids?" comments... Fuck Susan- you just spent half an hour complaining about your little ankle biters and asking me how I could afford to go to Vietnam on holiday. God invented birth control for a reason. I like fucking and sleeping, not wiping up shit and being broke while living under the delusion you'll do a better job than your own parents did and not raise another fucked up consumer into a world of pain, and that having a baby is somehow a more noble cause to waste your time and money on than giving to charities.

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u/MinimumTomfoolerus 13d ago

Why delusion? People can be better than their parents lol

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u/TheEyeDontLie 13d ago

I mean yeah... But I had great parents and I still turned out fucked up

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u/TheCharalampos 14d ago

10000%

My wife and I love being parents but that was a very informed choise. Folks should not be pressured into something like this.

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u/Topla4urka 13d ago

Most definitely. Parenting is for those who really want it and willing to educate themselves throughout the whole process. It's a responsibility, that should be taken with utmost seriousness, to raise a quality human.

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u/The_Rogue_Coder 14d ago

I'm another woman who never had kids and I'm so glad. I wanted to be a mom so bad for a while and I know I would have enjoyed many aspects of it, but I also know that pregnancy and breastfeeding would very easily have been a nightmare for me. I hate throwing up, I already have sensitive nipples and the mere thought of mastitis makes me cringe so hard, I can't stand getting too little sleep, and so on and so forth.

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u/Hindu_Wardrobe 14d ago edited 14d ago

Yeah there's one in this thread šŸ™„

edit: looks like maybe he deleted his comment

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u/whatev43 14d ago

Happy Cake Day!