Thanks, that's really sweet.

Thanks, that's really sweet.

Some of the comments here are fairly terrifying to me, because I am currently in that situation (on the opposite side). I moved here to be with my boyfriend, and I don't have permission to work in jobs which would just be a means of bringing home a bit of money and keeping myself occupied (this is due to the fact that…

I can see why some people interpreted it as that, but it's not what I took from it. I took the article to be like, "ok, shit balls, unexpected pregnancy. But if you want it, and if you are anything like me, here's kind of some benefits to it".

Fair enough, but she specifically says that this was not "unwelcome". It's not like she didn't want to continue with the pregnancy, but did so anyway.

Mother - two children after being told she was infertile

I think it's partly also because when you're in a long term relationship and you're older, you get complacent. Unless you are of the mindset that "OMG I DON'T WANT KIDS! I ABSOLUTELY DON'T WANT KIDS" then there is not the same looming sense of abject terror after every time that you have sex, because it's not going to…

Planning = active. i.e. having sex at a particular time of the month, using ovulation kits, having sex with the intention of having a baby

It's also that TERRIBLE lego style hair cut that she has.

Rather freak her out now than him be a total creepy shit head to her later though, no??

Tourists

I can't understand how people can't get their heads around the fact that a religious tradition can transform into just a tradition, without necessarily holding onto the religious background. As I've mentioned elsewhere, all the Catholic feasts are bank holidays here. Because that's what the bank holidays were before,…

Come off it. Do you really think that having retail shops closed on sunday is the biggest problem in France and Italy's economy?

Because that is the way that France do it. It's the way they have done it for a long time.

Because it's much easier for businesses to plan around? Especially small and medium businesses, which are the majority here.

Because the concept of "I want something!! RIGHT NOW!! I need to buy it in the next thirty seconds!" doesn't really exist. If you want something, you plan ahead, and then you buy it.

SO MANY generalisations about "Europeans" on here.

I have NO idea what that means, and I am from the UK. Maybe it is some kind of regional slang.

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Yeah, I hate this so hard. My cycle is anything between max 5 weeks and minimum 3 weeks. I just can't even!!