Exactly. I feel like he would just buy a box of Tampons while he was at the corner store picking up beer. "Hey, I wasn't sure if you were running out of these or not, but just in case."

I feel the same way. He seems like he'd pick you up at the airport, even when your flight is four hours late and it's the middle of the night and he's in charge of the kids' carpool tomorrow morning.

Ben Affleck: "I'm a Cheater."

I can't hate Ben Affleck. I bet he makes really good waffles on Saturday morning and never talks while Game of Thrones is on.

See, that's why I only play hold'em. It's only two cards! No need for elaborate counting. One, two, done. Even drunk I can count to two. He probably tried one of those seven card games and had to count on his fingers. That's how they get you.

Even the 70s would have found this ugly.

Since I cannot express myself verbally I will let this Clint Eastwood gif convey my feelings.

Children are so vastly different from one another; I don't think exposure to even a multitude of kids can help a person accurately anticipate their experience(s) of parenthood. I was an incredibly easygoing child and my younger brother was an incredibly difficult child. My mother has said multiple times that if he'd…

I don't think it's selfish to not want kids because it would make you unhappy. Here's a secret - people who want kids, want them because it will make them happy. Even if it isn't a sleeping-in-on-Sundays kind of happy, generally people who want kids and have them are fulfilling a desire. It isn't selfless at all.

this, this, this.

Hear, hear. No one held these women at gunpoint and forced them to bear their children. Especially the one who was apathetic towards her son and then went on to have ANOTHER child! I'm a mother to an almost-4-year-old son, and it's hard as hell. It's exhausting and frustrating and so much more difficult than I ever…

Don't give in and have kids just because your husband wants kids. Offer him a divorce so he can find someone who does want kids. You should have worked that out before you married.

This would be one of those mom sacrifices. You don't write and publish essays for the world to read cuz FEELINGS. You go to therapy, find a private group of like minded women, talk to your spouse. You don't get to emotionally fuck up your kids cuz FEELINGS.

You're totally right. As a teenager I found one of my mother's old journals. Out of curiosity I read it, which I know I shouldn't have. There was an entry in which she said that she found me hard to love. I was probably 4 years old. And the thing is, I was an easy child who was eager to please because I was already…

This is why I don't want children. Well, I've never wanted them, really. But my husband does and he thinks everything will change and it'll be fine and he'll help so, so, so, so much and I'll be a great mother! But I'm worried I'll hate it and resent the children; children aren't stupid and they'd know. They'd know…

I totally understand where you're coming from. However, my mother used to tell me the same things, like she would have more money without me, and that me getting sick was an inconvenience to her and that she had to leave her job to have me and had to "start all over again." These are completely legitimate…

I'd feel sympathy for a woman who was forced into motherhood against her will or by lack of options, but the woman saying she never wanted to be a mother then had a son anyway, had no feelings for him, and then had a daughter? I'm sorry, she's just an asshole.

Either way, I think its important to protect children from those sentiments, because either way, they will eventually feel responsible that their mother hates her life. But yes, a lack of affection is certainly the more troubling of the two.

That was my first thought as well. No one wants to be referred to as the biggest mistake of someone's life, especially if the person saying it is their parent. The pain that causes, pain that people like you and I have experienced firsthand, cuts incredibly deep.

I understand why people would feel like they couldn't talk about this. If we're being honest about feelings here, I honestly felt no sympathy for the women above. To be honest, I saved all my sympathy for their children.