You're one of those customers, aren't you?

"... robbed the place with a machete two weeks later." <—-funniest statement in this entire article.

"What if you meet a man who wants children?" has always been a phrase guaranteed to provoke rage in me. Why, certainly, if a man wants me to do something that I've actively not wanted to do for as long as I can remember, I'll do that no matter how miserable it makes me!

This thread is a conversation about being childfree by choice. There are people talking about the sort of crap they get about changing their minds when they get older, then you post some of that exact crap. Then you want to tell me, no, you weren't just being totally rude to me, it's just that other people might be…

Your comment is incredibly refreshing to hear. I'm 29, my career (which means everything to me) is finally gaining some traction, and I just moved into a nice apartment with my long-time boyfriend. We both grew up with immigrant parents who struggled to provide us with decent lives, and I believe this laid down the…

Current boyfriend and I are on notice so the advice about broaching the subject with new dates is very timely, thank you.

Current boyfriend must be otherwise amazing because that's a fireable offense. To avoid that kind of thing from potential partners I was always open about it way earlier than appropriate. Like early first date conversation. If they had an inkling they wanted kids, let's not put ourselves in a position of a heart…

You raise an interesting point. Another good question would be, knowing what you know now, would you choose to have or not have kids?

Thank you for this. I just never had the slightest urge to be a parent. Maybe it's just a genetic thing, as no matter how many children I was around, the desire to be with one 24/7 and nurture it and raise it was just never there. Of course there was a lot of pressure from parents and friends and society in general…

I'm 49, surgically sterilized, with the same guy 22 years, and wait for it - never changed my mind about not having children.

I'm incredibly happy that I am a mother (particularly because my kid is over 25).

I knew pretty early in my young adulthood that I didn't want kids. Everyone told me I would change my mind when I got older. I'm 30 now and my mind is still pretty anti-children. Everyone still keeps telling me I'll change my mind when I "find the right man". I don't think so.

In general, weaponized liberal outrage is a devastating resource, and we must only use it for good.

Hyzenthlay, that is a wonderful story. I love my Southern Belle mom, but she has never understood my love of science, science fiction, and fantasy. I know she has always wished I were more "girly" (which is funny, because all of my Northern friends think I am ultra-girly).

"The last person who said that to me honestly thought he was the most "honest and open" person in the whole wide world. The was a lot of cognitive dissonance required to maintain that belief in the face of overwhelming evidence against it, but he heroically managed the task."

Just...no. Not for me. The version she did with The Roots was the best that will be done.

When my bf sent this to me last night he said "I find this incredibly insulting". We then went thru it line by line and before long we were both incredibly insulted. Good news is, we are much closer now than we were before!

Yeah. My first thought was how awful it was for those kids and what monsters these women were. My second thought was about the effect this would have on future adoptions in California.

'I've had bad luck with guys who describe what they want as "open and honest" relationships. They tend to be the most dishonest assholes of the lot—and punish honesty in any form.'

Oh, I had that Monster Manual, too! I had forgotten all about that! I'm going to visit my mom in a couple of weeks, so I'm going to check.