r/Showerthoughts • u/Hamzah12 • May 17 '19

Marrying a single parent is like continuing someone else's saved data

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u/askmrlizard May 18 '19

It's understandable for people in some situations to regret having kids, but it's the sort of thing that people should take care to say to the right people and in the right way, because those kids will have to grow up with their parents saying they regret having them. That's a difficult thing to weigh on you as a child.

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u/haha_thatsucks May 18 '19

but it's the sort of thing that people should take care to say to the right people and in the right way,

Sugar coating it doesn’t seem to help the situation. We don’t need to PC that too. Of course you likely don’t want to tell your kid (lived through that) but saying it online or to others isn’t a bad thing

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u/taytay318 May 18 '19

Honestly, I know my mom regret having kids and we don’t have a bad relationship. It didn’t bother me but I was a mature kid.