I will honestly find any excuse to watch and use this clip. Because I’m mesmerized, too. After I first discovered it, there was no going back.

I have no idea!!! And I Cannot. Stop. Watching. I feel if I watch it enough, I may unlock THE SECRET.

This made me laugh. Hard. And then I realized I might be making the same face as him. Jeeaah!

He’s been practicing it in the pool all his life.

I am just so, so sorry. You’re right, and you’ve gone through so much. The last thing you needed was that intrusive asshole.

Same here. I fully appreciate that love and responsibility for children is different.

I’ve been chiming in on these posts, hopefully not too intrusively. I’m sharing some of the same experience as you. I admire your thoughtfulness in your decision making and your post here.

I hear you. All my support goes out to you. You and your sibling are lucky to have each other.

I’m so sorry for your loss. You deserve to have all the support and comfort you need, in your way, in your time.

I am glad about that. Your parents sound wonderful, and deservedly so. (Hear you on the latter, too. :)

Yes. That’s it, isn’t it? I’d add on — who’s taking care of you and others now? Who’s taking care of you in the future? Me. B/c I don’t have kids and our siblings who do have kids can’t (and some won’t) do it.

Support for your choices and hugs/solidarity from an internet stranger re: your experiences.

I have started to rethink how I answering people who pressure me about kids. And maybe even how I engage certain people who kind of devalue my time, if not priorities, b/c I don’t have kids.

Agree on all of this. And I hate to say that the interviewing delivery and responses were definitely jarring for me, too. If it’s any “consolation” or, rather, context — I’m a lady scientist as well, and this reminds me of some of my lab students’ and techs’ presentation styles. And these folks are super-interested…