“I’m done trying to convey to you the preciousness of babies and children.”
Oh for heaven’s sake,I had five children and have a bunch of grandchildren, but as far as I’m concerned someone who doesn’t want children shouldn’t have them.
Babies that are born to parents who don’t want them usually don’t end up well and anyone wise enough to make that decision does not deserve to be considered self centered.
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My personal experience with adults who don’t want to have children, is that they don’t have them, and instead spend all their money on themselves, their desires and wishes. They travel, have lovely (empty) homes, and have seemingly “wonderful” lives. They keep trying to remind me how terrific everything in their lives is, but somehow they seem miserable and complain quite a bit. Yet, they tell me how imperfect my children are and how I should do things differently. It’s a facade. I think they really are miserable.
So forgive me, please, for attributing these things to others who tell me that caring for children is a burden. It is only a burden if those are the glasses you’re wearing.