I don't understand the desire to become pregnant. Woman who find their only purpose in life is to further populate the already overly populated planet confuse and slightly anger me. We all know we've reached our carrying capacity some of us just choose to ignore this by popping them out over and over again.
I know, I wouldn't be here if my mom had the same mentality I did (which I am told she was the one who swore she'd never have children, and ended having two).
But I'm just saying, having babies isn't my top priority, nor do I feel it is my responsibility as a woman to do so.
A regular customer came into work a few days ago and I noticed for the first time she was pregnant, very very pregnant.
me: I didn't know you were pregnant.
pregnant customer: Me neither until the sixth month.
me:Wow! Well congratulations.
pregnant customer:Heh....thanks....
The biggest reason I am afraid of having children is I won't know what to do. I am so critical of myself and always want things to work out a certain way and be perfect, that I could never handle all the responsibility of raising a child, of molding and shaping a person's life. I can attribute much of who I am today to my mom. I'm not sure I want someone to say that about me.
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i just read this jole thing, and i can now say that i feel the EXACT same way. I got told once by a guy that all i was good for was sex and makeing babies. you dont know how bad i wanted to take a machiene gun and shoot at his genitals.
I agree with you...I'm not one of those girls that think if I don't have babies then I won't have any purpose in life. I think I'm too selfish for a kid. I want to travel and read and party and drink and smoke and it's hard to do that with a kid.
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