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Spanish Manlove
Aug 31, 2008

HAILGAYSATAN
:shopkeeper:

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Jerry Mumphrey
Mar 11, 2004

by zen death robot

(and can't post for 4 years!)

I'm going to make money and stay fit and healthy through my 30's, and when I'm 39 I will start considering marrying a woman at least 10 years younger than me and have kids with her. lol if you're a man and this isn't your plan.

Apthous
Nov 2, 2014

by XyloJW
I'm going to make money and and get fat through my 30's, and when I'm 85 I'll die on top of a pile of money and taco bell wrappers. lol if you're a man and this isn't your plan.

gnarlyhotep
Sep 30, 2008

by Lowtax
Oven Wrangler
a man, a plan, a canal

screech on the beach
Mar 9, 2004
While all my friends are having babies and struggling with money, trying to find jobs to support their spermlings because they can't mooch off their parents much longer, my boyfriend and I just booked our second cruise. We're going to the Bahamas for our 21st and 22nd birthdays!

I'm so glad I realized very young that I didn't want children, and I'm even more glad that I discovered this sub so that my decisions were solidified.

de_dust
Jan 21, 2009

she had tiny Italian boobs.
Well that's my story.
op i think you should read the enchiridon of epictetus it'll help in these dark and goony times

~peace love and chicken grease~

Apthous
Nov 2, 2014

by XyloJW
I dumped my ex gf because she wouldn't gently caress me as often as I wanted. Been single for 8 years and I would say it has been a good decision.

Mr. Creakle
Apr 27, 2007

Protecting your virginity



CISMALES DID 9-11 posted:

it's not really 1 particular race i think people mostly just get frustrated at really poor people having tons of kids because you've basically just trapped yourself and your children in your own lovely life cycle.

Yeah. Poor and less educated = popping out either lots of kids or even a few that they could never take care of = desperately clinging to welfare = kids grow up poor and poorly educated, have 8 kids of their own. ~*circle of life*~

We all know condoms suck but the pills are way cheaper these days, Jesus.

LoG posted:

While all my friends are having babies and struggling with money, trying to find jobs to support their spermlings because they can't mooch off their parents much longer, my boyfriend and I just booked our second cruise. We're going to the Bahamas for our 21st and 22nd birthdays!

I'm so glad I realized very young that I didn't want children, and I'm even more glad that I discovered this sub so that my decisions were solidified.

I would be doing that too but instead of having debt from children I have debt from college loans. :smith:

gnarlyhotep
Sep 30, 2008

by Lowtax
Oven Wrangler

de_dust posted:

op i think you should read the enchiridon of epictetus it'll help in these dark and goony times

~peace love and chicken grease~


enchiritos are great

fuccboi
Jan 5, 2004

by zen death robot

Cuckoo posted:

Why do so many people say minorities are the ones with clown car vaginas when literally every trailer park has quite a few white families that keep popping out kids because either God tells them to or they are allergic to birth control

I've seen white trash moms that have more kids than they do teeth

Well I also added religious fundamentalists, which covers whites.

CISMALES DID 9-11
Jun 5, 2002

chaotic good STEM major; INTJ
DINK life is best life so sorry OP and others who cannot find a mate disinterested in spawning new life

screech on the beach
Mar 9, 2004
I loving hate kids, like if I find out they are at a party or if a friend invites me over and doesn't have a sitter I decline. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being LOVE 'EM, and 1 being wanting all children to disappear from the earth, I am a 2. I hate them as much as humanly possible without wishing harm upon them. With that being said, I STILL have these oxytocin fueled-baby cravings that come out of nowhere irrationally, like once a year or maybe more than that.

What I do is think of all the negatives. I think of why I rationally decided not to have them and why the lifestyle seems like utter hell to me. If those feelings still have the same impact on you, I strongly not advice giving into your baby rabies.

It is possible you have changed your mind though, a lot of people on this sub don't like when people say that but it's true that some people who were once adamantly CF change their minds. But only you can figure that out.

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot
I take special pleasure in squandering our dwindling finite resources in the knowledge it immanentizes hellscape earth for you and your squealing brood swarm :twisted:

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot
only begin to consider having children once the first fusion power plant is up and producing

Ragtime Cthulhu
Dec 11, 2014

The Mad Archivist posted:

only begin to consider having children once the first fusion power plant is up and producing

Or we develop nanofabrication

Liquid Chicken
Jan 25, 2005

GOOP
OP - find yourself a chick with a hysterectomy.

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

Ragtime Cthulhu posted:

Or we develop nanofabrication

then the earth will just be consumed by a rampant nanite swarm, so the point is moot

Haverchuck
May 6, 2005

the coolest

LoG posted:

While all my friends are having babies and struggling with money, trying to find jobs to support their spermlings because they can't mooch off their parents much longer, my boyfriend and I just booked our second cruise. We're going to the Bahamas for our 21st and 22nd birthdays!

I'm so glad I realized very young that I didn't want children, and I'm even more glad that I discovered this sub so that my decisions were solidified.

where do you live that you are 21 or 22 and most or your friends (assumed to be around the same age) already have kids. wherever it is it must be extremely rural and poverty stricken

Bhodi
Dec 9, 2007

Oh, it's just a cat.
Pillbug
I ran into this over at tinder.txt, hope this helps your situation:

Business Octopus posted:

Definitely less than 20% of people meet someone that is a suitable and appropriate long term monogamous partner. Chances are, you won't be in this lucky minority. That's because you can only spend so long being single before you rush into an ill-advised relationship just to get regular condom-free sex and pretend like you're experiencing real emotional and physical intimacy. You will have reservations very early on in this relationship which you will ignore once you're in the honeymoon stage, but your initial reservations turn out to be 100% correct. In your early and mid-20s these conflicts will result in you breaking up the relationship and starting the cycle again. However, once you hit your late 20s to early 30's, you start to get tired and both of you will manage to suppress your hatred enough to keep it going. Because you have committed so much time you will end up marrying this person and having 1-2 children with them. You will love the children, but your love for your children will only highlight just how comparatively unimportant your spouse is to you personally. Once your kids have had their spirits and optimism sufficiently destroyed by growing up in a loveless household, you'll reach an impasse. Now you get to decide whether or not you want to grow old with someone that you would rather not spend any time with, or you can divorce and make a second attempt at true love. If you pick option B, you get to experience the wonders of dating as a 40-50 something, when almost all of your dating pool is thoroughly unfuckable with 20-30+ years of baggage.

hemale in pain
Jun 5, 2010




Haverchuck posted:

where do you live that you are 21 or 22 and most or your friends (assumed to be around the same age) already have kids. wherever it is it must be extremely rural and poverty stricken

naw, this is my friends too and we're all white/middle class. i don't know wtf seriously, the only sensible pair are married with no plans for children.

(im gay)

Magnitogorsk.
Nov 14, 2004

Global warming is barely a big deal at all compared to the trajectory we used to be on. We'll have to do a lot of environmental engineering projects along certain shorelines and it will be a little warmer and wetter in some places, big fucking deal.

Cuckoo posted:

Why do so many people say minorities are the ones with clown car vaginas when literally every trailer park has quite a few white families that keep popping out kids because either God tells them to or they are allergic to birth control

I've seen white trash moms that have more kids than they do teeth

Because it's empirical fact that fertility rates vary significantly by ethnicity http://www.childtrends.org/?indicators=fertility-and-birth-rates

Who Is Paul Blart
Oct 22, 2010

Neutrino
Mar 8, 2006

Fallen Rib
It isn't an either/or proposition. Get together with a woman that wants babies, marry here and have fun but before you start sexing her, cut off your balls and you are guaranteed not to have crotch spawns. You don't need balls anyway if you are going child free and they get in the way of good sex, IMO. Chop them or just snip them. DIY surgery works great.

DONKEY SALAMI
Jun 28, 2008

donkey? donkey?

Get vasectomy

Makes her debating skills moot

Anorexic Robot
Nov 11, 2012

Cuckoo posted:

I would be doing that too but instead of having debt from children I have debt from college loans. :smith:

atleast your college education doesnt yell at you and call you a human being for not buying them the ps4 at launch

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG
get a wizard or cleric to set your bind point on the crotch so you spwan there

let it mellow
Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum

CISMALES DID 9-11 posted:

DINK life is best life so sorry OP and others who cannot find a mate disinterested in spawning new life

ProperCauldron
Oct 11, 2004

nah chill
Any reasonable person can realize the world is a titanic shithole run by blood-gurgling psychopaths.

If I can save someone from feeling how I sometimes feel, it's worth it to not have kids. I love my unborn children so I would never introduce them to this madness.

Roro
Oct 9, 2012

HOO'S HEAD GOES ALL THE WAY AROUND?
OP is literally just copying and pasting from reddit lmao.

Do it ironically
Jul 13, 2010

by Pragmatica
its also for the best because autists dont make good parents

Do it ironically
Jul 13, 2010

by Pragmatica
god son youre such a loving idiot thats an apatosaurus not an brontosaurus

Savage For The Winjun
Jun 27, 2008


hemale in pain posted:

naw, this is my friends too and we're all white/middle class. i don't know wtf seriously, the only sensible pair are married with no plans for children.

(im gay)

you/your friends sound even more poor now that you have qualified yourself as being "white/middle class"

screech on the beach
Mar 9, 2004
I need advice and/or simply an outlet at the moment. This is going to be long -- Be warned.
Last night, my fiance and I went to a concert that we have been waiting to go to for months. He is in his 30s/I am in my late 20s and last night we raged our child-free faces off and had the best night of our lives. We live in a major city and decided to walk home instead of a cab because we were both drunk and still high from the music. It was the best concert I had ever been to and I spent the night dancing against my fiance like a feral whore. It was amazing. I am going into pointless detail here, but I want to set the mood for just how great this experience was. Why? because for the years we've been together, that type of experience is almost bi-weekly. We have a blast together every day. Life is perfect and amazing.
Or so I thought.
From the beginning of our relationship, we both established that we are child-free people. It is one of the things that really brought us together. We're not saving up to be able to send little Tommy to college -- We party, travel, go out to dinners and do literally whatever we want. That is the beauty of our lives.
Last night, on the way home from the concert, my fiance looked me in the eyes and went on about how he couldn't wait to get me home and (use your imagination here.) I kiss him and we pause just looking into each other -- smiling. After a moment, he blurts out "we need to have a kid. At least one." I laugh. This is hilarious to me because I think he's drunkenly trying to joke around in a somewhat romantic feeling moment. It turns out he wasn't joking.
We continue walking home and start talking. This beautiful and amazing night has now come to a screeching, serious halt -- It's time to have a very important conversation (one that I thought we already had.) I love and respect him, so I actively listened to him explain his reasons (let me know if any of these sound familiar..) "We are too smart to not pass that on to humanity." "Our child would be beautiful." "We wouldn't be alone -- we would have your mother and our other friends with children around to help us." "We are the type of people that need to have kids." There was more, but you get the point. I then tell him, as gently but directly as I can, that I love him -- but I'm not having children.
The rest of the walk home was pretty quiet. We tried to drop the subject by talking about the weather. We get home and pour a nightcap (probably not the smartest decision since it simply fueled the fire, but its already happened, so whatever.) I let him know I'm headed to bed soon because I have work in the morning.
"What is the point of even getting married then."
excuse me?
"What is the point of wasting all of this money on a wedding or even getting married in the first place??"
...because we love each other and want to be a family?
"How are we supposed to contribute to this world and make a difference? What are we supposed to do with our lives?"
-This is kind of a Pandora's Box moment because I see what is happening. He has just turned 31 and all of his friends are already married and are starting to have children. They all have established careers and my fiance is a bartender. Please understand that was his choice and he loves his job. He went to school for law, but fell in love with the industry. I love him for it and love that he is living his life the way he wants. However, outside of his job, he pretty much just hangs out with friends and plays video games (ah... the life.)
I counter him by saying that I do contribute to the world every day. I run the technology department for a multimillion dollar healthcare company (pause here for a moment to note that my job is very stressful and sometimes I come home simply wiped out.) I volunteer with animals and foster dogs. I donate and raise money for charities. I've hosted events to raise funds for Child's Play and for children to get laptops in Africa. I donate food to shelters and help the neighborhood watch clean up trash once a month. I do my drat part on this planet. If he isn't feeling fulfilled, then maybe he can get more active in the community or we can even start doing a charity thing together.
"Don't pretend to be all happy. You can't even handle your job without coming home completely drained and I get to hear about it."
This is where I go from being supportive partner to a straight up bitch.
I love him, but my stressful job has nothing to do with me not wanting children. I remind him that even if I had a billion dollars and no career, I still wouldn't want a child. He starts to get angry (thanks for the extra fuel, Dalwhinnie) and basically starts just picking at my life. He starts pin pointing every little thing. He questions my womanhood. I can't do this.
I verbally ripped him to shreds.
Listen up, buddy. You work 3 nights a week and do squat with the rest of your time. Are you ready to be a stay at home dad? because one of us needs to rake in the cash for a kid and provide health insurance and we both know drat well that isn't ever going to be you. You want to deal with a kid? You apparently can't even handle being around me when I come home from a long day at work, but you can handle a kid? That's crap. You'd be the shittiest father in the world and I'm not going to take that on as well as being the primary breadwinner because YOU are facing some life crisis where you realized that you've done nothing with your life but party and have fun. You don't get to have me poo poo out a kid because YOU feel unfulfilled. Maybe you should get your poo poo together and work hard towards something you care about! I own the god damned home you're living in right now. I've worked my loving rear end off to get my life. If you don't like yours, might I suggest you get a loving MOVE ON IT!!!
-Insert verbal battery from both ends here for another hour or so-
In the years we have been together, we've fought maybe twice. We've never had a blow out like this. Ever.
At some point, I don't really remember when, but I took my ring off. I was crying my eyes out and felt so unbelievably betrayed and hurt. I felt like my best friend just stabbed me through the heart. I eventually just felt so hopeless in this fight that I simply stopped and went upstairs to go to bed. He didn't follow me.
So now, here I am -- Sitting at work without my ring on and dreading my drive home later to what might be the end of the relationship that means everything to me.
I was not a saint in these events, but I'm in need of some advice and support right now. I didn't see this coming and I don't want to lose my Abba Zabba. I'm not a fan of simply walking away from something just because its hard and, if this is salvageable, I want to try and fix it.
If you've made it this far into this story and have any words of wisdom for me, please share. My current plan is to go home and talk to him about everything and suggest that maybe he try some new things in life. If after whatever period of time passes and he is still kid-ridden, then he will need to let me know and I will not be mad at him. I can't even believe I just typed that sentence out. Just.. UGHH.

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

Roro posted:

OP is literally just copying and pasting from reddit lmao.

no way

Barco Fiesta
May 26, 2009




a fantasy of olives
lol GBS quality content

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.
drat it must suck to have such lovely genetics that you cant pass them on in good conscience, cant imagine what thats like OP

maybe try the gay way?

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.

LoG posted:

reddit words

this is some good poo poo, i skimmed around and saw that the couple chose to be childfree so they could party, go to dinners and spend money on themselves

lol weird, i thought there were some people with kids who could do that too. i guess one of the factors of being childfree is being too poor to be able to live a reasonable life while also planning for kids

Amateur Saboteur
Feb 5, 2010

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

gnarlyhotep posted:

a man, a plan, a canal
go on

Panamaniac
Jun 18, 2007

HEROES NEVER DIE
This is why I only bang escorts.

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VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005
For every kid you don't have I'm going to have three...


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