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Having Children

Parents Open Up About Regretting Having Kids

by _darkness 2/18/2017

written by _darkness

Came across this video just now. I think we need more of this- people being REAL about having children, instead of this stupid insane societal push to make everyone feel like they NEED to have a kid and that there’s something wrong with you if you don’t.

Back in my 20s, EVERYONE, and I mean EVERYONE, including the grocery store cashier, was like “Why are you still single? Why aren’t you married? Why aren’t you having children? What do you mean you DON’T want to have any??? And they all act like it’s SO wrong and SO bad of […]

2/18/2017 31 comments

Not like this.

by I.cant.breathe! 2/16/2013

written by I.cant.breathe!

I wanted to die differently, I want to drown, I want to OD, I want to shoot myself, anything but cancer! I’d jump, I’d hang, I’d chug, anything BUT cancer. I’d like to be hit, I’d like to drift off in my slumber eternally, I’d like to be stabbed, anything but CANCER. fuck cancer, fuck cancer, fuck cancer, fuck cancer, fuck it. I’m sitting in a stupid hostpital, in a stupid gown, with stupid food, stupid and overly chipper nurses, oh and don’t forget the cell enlarging body killing menace, CANCER. At first I thought they were joking, just lightening the mood somehow, “I’m sorry […]

2/16/2013 4 comments

Trying to free myself of pain

by sad_man 12/11/2012

written by sad_man

My story:

I’ve had bouts of depression throughout my life. However, I was at one point and recently married, happy, and hopeful. Â Then one day the dark storm approached. My wife admitted to having multiple affairs, one in our first year of marriage (6 years total), and one that was still currently going on. There were other men in the middle. Just a month before this, she was talking to me about having children with me. Sending me baby names, etc. It was blue sky for me at that time… maybe a cloud or two. Once she told me, I thought I could fix the problem […]

12/11/2012 2 comments