A friend of a friend is like that. Being an auntie is her whole personalityMy friend has taken to posting daily baby and toddler photos in the group chat and is umming and ahhing about taking up her work’s informal offer to eventually up her hours to full time because she’ll see the kids less.
These aren’t her kids.
They’re her niece and nephew.
Bold of you to assume childfree people feel joy. I go home, plug myself into my charging device and just shut down until it's time to get up for work again.Someone at work has just told me they assumed I ‘wouldn’t be into Christmas as I don’t have kids, and if they didn’t have kids then they just wouldn’t bother’these people are so bloody miserable
Well, you know, it IS tiring having to drag our cold, granite, childfree souls around all week….Bold of you to assume childfree people feel joy. I go home, plug myself into my charging device and just shut down until it's time to get up for work again.
Sorry, I have just been reading this thread with interest and had to comment.Can’t stand people like that and the “you don’t enjoy Christmas until you have children”.
I’m pretty sure I’d stop enjoying Christmas if I did have children
You don’t need to have kids to appreciate a good Christmas dinner
I rest my case.Sorry, I have just been reading this thread with interest and had to comment.
I actually do have children (so I don’t know if I’m welcome here!) but this is so true for me. I have always loved Christmas, but since having my kids (aged 4 and 1) I now hate it!
Just feels like too much pressure from other people for them to be on top form. Most years one of them has been ill/having a meltdown over something. And I never get to fully enjoy my Christmas dinner in peacejust too much chaos.
Pure blissI rest my case.
Christmas is far more enjoyable when there’s no kids, no pressure & you can just get fat on pigs in blankets & drunk on wine
omg I love my niece but sometimes i visit when I know she's napping or gone to bed so I can have a conversation with my sister and not be listening to screeching.My friend has taken to posting daily baby and toddler photos in the group chat and is umming and ahhing about taking up her work’s informal offer to eventually up her hours to full time because she’ll see the kids less.
These aren’t her kids.
They’re her niece and nephew.
Well it’s not tiring is it, because you don’t have children. It’s just neutral like everything else in the life of a childfree person. No highs, no lows, no love, no joy, no tiredness, no upset, no worry.Well, you know, it IS tiring having to drag our cold, granite, childfree souls around all week….
Comments like that are the reason why I could never leave this threadBold of you to assume childfree people feel joy. I go home, plug myself into my charging device and just shut down until it's time to get up for work again.
D’oh, of course! I forgot I don’t know what real tiredness is, or love…Well it’s not tiring is it, because you don’t have children. It’s just neutral like everything else in the life of a childfree person. No highs, no lows, no love, no joy, no tiredness, no upset, no worry.
Read one as well recently saying that only parents truly know how to empathiseD’oh, of course! I forgot I don’t know what real tiredness is, or love…
Someone said that to me. After telling me how pointless and empty my life was without children and how it was the only real reason to live - while I was sitting in the office kitchen eating lunch at the same table as my other colleague after she had just been told both her and her husband had fertility issues and wouldn’t be able to have biological children. Which the woman who said all that did know. I asked her how much of a nasty, thoughtless cold-hearted bitch she was before children if this was the empathetic version of her and she never spoke to me again. She would email me anything she needed to regarding work, wouldn’t even say hi or bye or anything so I took that as a win.Read one as well recently saying that only parents truly know how to empathise
So we're just big sociopaths too apparently.
Wooooow! What a thing to just come out with. So self awareness is not something people gain when they have children.Someone said that to me. After telling me how pointless and empty my life was without children and how it was the only real reason to live - while I was sitting in the office kitchen eating lunch at the same table as my other colleague after she had just been told both her and her husband had fertility issues and wouldn’t be able to have biological children. Which the woman who said all that did know. I asked her how much of a nasty, thoughtless cold-hearted bitch she was before children if this was the empathetic version of her and she never spoke to me again. She would email me anything she needed to regarding work, wouldn’t even say hi or bye or anything so I took that as a win.
Is she deranged?My friend has taken to posting daily baby and toddler photos in the group chat and is umming and ahhing about taking up her work’s informal offer to eventually up her hours to full time because she’ll see the kids less.
These aren’t her kids.
They’re her niece and nephew.
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