I don’t know why they’re saying stuff like do you have kids and you’ll understand when you have kids, on Mumsnet a few weeks ago was a woman having a childfree wedding except her own kids, there’s often threads on there and I’ve seen threads on Reddit about people having childfree weddings either with their own children or with even their own children not attending. It’s not unusual to see on step parenting forums/sub forums where eg the bride and grooms shared children are not attending but the children from the grooms previous marriage feel left out because they aren’t invited but they aren’t being because it’s childfree but how do you explain that to 5-10 year old.
Christ that's genuinely tragic.I went to a corporate event yesterday, this will be a working group on a project for the next 18 months, the first time we’ve all met. We did the usual intro of who you are, your daily job role, your project role and an interesting fact. One woman’s interesting fact was ‘I’m a mum’
The cry laughing emoji takes the nauseating comment to a new level honestly.
And I thought I was the youngest person in the world who read Liz Jones
they’re getting antsy around me and asking about next stepsNo offence to you grandmother but I often wonder if comments like this are because they’re projecting. Misery loves company and all that.
Shouldn't be a problem. Parents of those kids are likely to be unhealthy too so probably won't see old age
My MIL often says my husband and his brother ruined her life. It was nothing but sacrifice for her. Never had money or life quality. But then says oh she loved her kids and that’s what life is all about and why don’t we at least consider the joy it’d bring. The same joy she says she had to wait 25 years to get rid of her kids, divorce their dad that she hated and find someone rich to give her the life she always wanted, now it’s “her time”. Yeah sounds absolutely fantastic, we will get right on that
Those dating adverts for our timers absolutely do my head too like oh now our kids are grown up it’s finally our time, let’s get divorced from people we got stuck having kids with and have a fling! Life is all YOUR TIME you made a choice to have the kids! MIL seems to miss the point that the trauma she inflicted with her own misery is probably a big reason my husband doesn’t want to make the same mistake!
If they got divorced she can use this article as proof that his only contribution was financial and it was her and her mother doing all the childcare and domestic tasks!
(her mother, of course) unpleasant tightarse.
