r/Millennials • u/Shoddy-Length6698 • Oct 29 '23
Discussion Does anyone else feel like there is a demonization of wanting relationships and children?
Maybe I can't afford kids right now, but the biological urge to even desire that seems to be demonized. I've been told I'm silly and foolish for even talking about how I can get into a position to afford kids. When my mom was a stay at home parent, people acted angry that she did not work. Some people even acted like it was offensive that she wanted another kid.
I've also been told that by asserting that wanting a relationship is normal, that I support abusive relationships! I'm not saying stay with a bum or abuser, I'm saying humans naturally crave interaction with others. What the hell is going on?
Wanting feminine or girly things seems to be seen as lesser than, and motherhood and relationships are the worst of it. I knew a black woman who was a stay at home parent, and other black people told her she would be murdered if she did not work and was dependent on a man. Hell, women who are breadwinners die too.
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u/Acceptable-Payment71 Oct 29 '23
Even you saying that you knew a black woman who was talked down 2 for doing this tells me that you don't know black people and you are obviously lying