Do you have a humidifier? That helped me with nose bleeds (but I’m not/never have been pregnant so maybe the issue is different?) Also swabbing some Vaseline inside my nose.

Not to mention, if you want a house or a boat to call your own you don’t have to buy them, you can just rent them for much less. There is no equivalent for having children: you either become a parent, or you stay childless.

I get why you’re saying that - but also please remember that we live in a country where reproductive health and education is dwindling if not disappearing all together. Your friend who decided to buy a boat isn’t anywhere similar to someone who had a child due to a lack of sexual education plus restrictions on birth…

And your wife is giving up the opportunity for career advancement and basically giving up any shot of having a career of any sort ever. She’s now completely dependent on you and while that may work out just fine there’s a good chance it won’t. My mom made the same choice and tried to go back to work once the kids were…

Reproducing is what our bodies want to do. It’s pretty hardwired. I don’t think you can equate that with a false sense of entitlement to something like house or boat ownership. It’s not some manufactured desire and it’s not trivial. The desire to have children is profound - it touches on the question of “what is my…

Well, another huge problem with this kind of thinking is that, if only the wealthy can afford to have children, then we have even more Trump spawn running the world. It’s imperative that we make raising children a social good that everyone shares. Also, let’s hope that robot doesn’t glitch out when it’s changing your…

This is a reasonable take in some ways. I can see the appeal. But having children isn’t buying a boat. It’s not some frivolous luxury, access to which should rightfully be limited to those who can afford it. Having and bringing up children is more like a right for individuals and a necessity for any society and…

I never even heard of the pizzagate conspiracy theory until dude walked in there with a gun. I guess unfollowing and defriending all the idiot trump supporters from my hometown really helped to secure my liberal FB bubble.

This sentiment... I mean, come on.

Same here. Everyone keeps asking when we’re having #2, and I tell them they have to be out of their minds, we can barely afford the one we have.

The cost of childcare is one of the reasons my wife and I decided to only have one child. We were enormously lucky that we were able to cobble together enough savings, short-term disability, and vacation/leave time that one or the other of us was able to stay home for the first 10 months of our daughter’s life, but we…

Yes! It was the only place I was un-greyed!!

I feel you. I already had my wedding in 2015 but it was us planning a wedding in the city I grew up in which was cheaper than where I live but still not cheap. We were forced 200 guests down our throats, a promised 10k to help that never materialized (because my MIL used it to throw events for our “wedding” that…

Bring back I Thee Dread!

Actually sort of bummed to find satire since I am indeed planning a wedding next year and struggling to find resources that don’t assume we want a $20,000 wedding with 200 family members and plan to spend my life savings on a white dress I’ll never wear again.

Goddamnit, this makes me miss I Thee Dread pissing contests and Jolie even more.

I’ve lived in on a blue midwest island. It just... doesn’t work that way. Unfortunately. People think that the numbers will outwit but that’s just not how it rolls.

Eh, is it not? I don’t think it’s very helpful when certain humans are still trying to win the fight to marry other actual humans.

This is 100% speculation, but I would guess the likelihood of accidental firearms deaths are higher among those who purchase guns “because they’re scared,” regardless of whom they fear.

Not to mention, the statistics about your in home gun being used against you or a family member still hold true no matter who the president is.