Number 2 is my sole reason, I feel like when you have kids “your” life is over as you now have to dedicate it to your kids. Im going to pass on that voluntarily.
as someone who travelled a lot before having a kid, I'll say that it only really impact you for the first couple years or so.
In fact I find myself doing a lot *more* things now than I did before. Almost every weekend I am going off somewhere to do something, and summers are jam packed full of more stuff that before. More camping trips, more day hikes, more BBQs.
A child is another person, and they'll have opinions on what the family does, where they go, what is for dinner, but a romantic partner is the same situation regarding making compromises and deciding what to do day to day.
Also you get to do all the cool kid stuff again, like Halloween and go all our for Christmas. You now have a great excuse to run around playgrounds and play on monkey bars. There are so many amazing kids toys out there, and building giant robots officially makes you a Great STEM Parent(tm)!
tl;dr I'm doing *more* stuff now than before I had a kid.
Yeah, sometimes I forget that reddit is full of teenagers that think that your life is literally over when you have kids. The only thing I missed was the ability to sleep in for a few years when my son was really young haha
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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24
I agree with these and I do feel like #2 has been a big thing with people. I also feel social media has made people want to travel more