I’m sorry we share some similar multi- and inter-generational patterns. It sucks. I’m 35 and still realizing regularly the ways all of this has flowed out into my other relationships, especially regarding my own anger and control issues. I relate to your grandma. But becoming aware of it is a key to a gateway. I also…

It was a joke. Kind of.

Not necessarily, in every case. Sometimes, due to dysfunctional family dynamics, often borne of multi-generational histories of childhood sexual abuse, parents DON’T protect their daughters. I know. I am one of them.

So, what you’re saying is,... Mary Kay Letourneau = Yoko Ono.

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Sounds like a typical child sex abuse offender to me! :/

“During that time, Letourneau gave birth to two children, both Fualaau’s who are now teenagers, they appeared with their parents during the interview.”

Do y’all even have editors anymore?

In my experience, this is correct.

Here ya go. My friend makes these awesome babies.

Yes, exactly.

HA. Parents are the biggest martyrs out there. Puh-lease.

Yeah, I don’t get this.

Not all people without kids have dual incomes.

So much this. Esp. Betty Draper. I love her.

I can’t help feeling like men who want their wives to go through pregnancy and childbirth don’t really love them.

I don’t have limitations. I have bigger goals than motherhood.

I’m 36 and still childfree and atheist, as is my 40-yo friend. FWIW. YMMV. Etc. ;)

Yeah, this sounds literally insane to me. No offense (seriously, no snark). I don’t want to give myself over to uncontrollable hormonal urges that trap me into caring for a little mini-me for the rest of my life. Oxytocin’s a helluva thing, man. It’s an evolutionary trick.

#YouMightBeChildfreeIf

Same.