Sounds like they'd been on the Prosecco all afternoon in All Bar Hun and Slug & Lettuce. I bet they went back home to their all grey decorated home with mirrored ornaments and Live, Laugh, Love signshahah - I have no clue! I just have flashbacks of waving arms, pink gin and "I'm a SKEEWWWLLL MUUUUMMMM" being screeched!
Sorry all for de-railing & your houses all sound great! Financial restrictions are a massive factor in having children or not and how many. I certainly couldn’t afford more without it affecting our standard of living.I didn't even say whether I own or rent. Just commented on the prices in my area
If I were you I’d of just left. They probably didn’t want to be rude or insensitive/discriminatory by saying ‘you can go as you don’t have children’@CheshireLove commiserations, today I had to sit through at least 15 minutes of parents talking about maternity and paternity leave policies and whether what the Scandinavian countries do is better/would work here...this was AFTER a Teams meeting had finished but as I was the only non parent I didn't want to look like a dick by leaving the meeting
If this is aimed at me, I don't think you've read all of my responses. Yes people without children can be better off financially most of the time but it would be very difficult for me to persue my hobbies/renovate a house as quickly, live in the conditions I did if I had children as it wouldn't be particularly fair to them. I know people do it with kids but I wouldn't myself. It's more that I get to spend all of my spare income on whatever I want rather than on children.. I get to spend my spare time on what I want too which is more important to me. I just happen to have what some people would consider and expensive hobby.Sorry but I feel like enough people on this thread have shared that part of the reason they don’t want children is due to financial precarity that this humblebragging about owning enormous homes in one’s twenties feels crass at best.
One of the freeing things for me about being child free is that I know I will never inflict the trauma I experienced through growing up in poverty on another life. I feel little pressure to own a home I won’t be able to afford anyway because I don’t need to pass it on to anyone.
I don’t want to sound bitter and I’m really happy for you all to be doing so well but really.
Nothing shrivels my ovaries quicker than that soundWalking the dog earlier and could hear a kid screaming somewhere, walked round the corner and this family in front of me with this kid kicking off that he didn't want to go for a walk. Eurgh.
I actually said this to my partner at a wedding we were at too. Looking over watching the mum round the kids up and pack everything away as they weren’t staying for the evening party, couldn’t imagine anything worse!Went to a fantastic wedding a few weekends ago. Got nicely pissed with my husband and friends. Felt for the best man his wife was left holding their newborn pram...nappies....crap everywhere his wife sat at the same chair the whole day and didn't interact as it was all about the baby. Her friend sat there with her cooing over the baby whilst everyone else got shit faced.
I kept looking over thinking that is my idea of hell.
It was probably my nephewWalking the dog earlier and could hear a kid screaming somewhere, walked round the corner and this family in front of me with this kid kicking off that he didn't want to go for a walk. Eurgh.
Also I'm not being funny but if the parents sign up to being a police officer they should expect that sometimes working nights at Christmas and other times comes with the territory. The entitlement of the general public really is something elseMy friend's husband is a police officer. They don't have kids. Guess who's on nights all over Christmas so that any of his colleagues with kids can "Be with their family".
He's pissed off because it's what always happens. As he said, just because he doesn't have children doesn't mean he doesn't have a family. He'd like for once to be able to spend Christmas with his wife, parents, siblings etc.
Why are 'parents' always the first to be looked after and to hell with anyone else?
That is terrible. Just because we are childfree does not mean that we are social pariahs. That said, even social pariah’s shouldn’t have to work every ChristmasAlso I'm not being funny but if the parents sign up to being a police officer they should expect that sometimes working nights at Christmas and other times comes with the territory. The entitlement of the general public really is something else
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