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Basic armchair psychology will tell you, nothing can make you happy. Your happiness is your own responsibility. Not all parents may understand that having chil
by balls187 10y ago
Basic armchair psychology will tell you, nothing can make you happy. Your happiness is your own responsibility.
Not all parents may understand that having children may mean drastic changes to lifestyle, and may not have been prepared for the ~27 years of stress that having children bring on.
Oddly enough, having kids gives me a purpose in Society, that otherwise being a 36 year old man would not have. Too old to join the military, too young for end-of-life services, too set in my buying habits for marketing to care at all about me.
As the wise Stringer Bell once said, you're like a 40 degree day.
But being a dad, society is all about that: my lack of physique is called "dadbod" and women can profess to fetishize about it, my asanine advice to my kids are subject of a comedy twitter account, my no-more-give a dame attitude for fashion sense is celebrated, and I even have a national holiday to celebrate being a Dad--which gives me a legit excuse to do what I want to do (which for most dads involves cooking food on a grill for their families)
- infinite8s 10y ago27 years? One would hope by 18 years of age one's child (in the descendant sense) would be fairly independent.
- Ma8ee 10y agoBut then it gets worse! They'll continue to do things that you consider stupid, but you can't control them any more.
- thebakeshow 10y agoPerhaps he had multiple children, extending the range
- balls187 10y agoMy theory (slightly humorous) is that kids don't smarten up until age 27.
- markc 10y agoIt does decline, but I think the 27 years is meant to include College, finding a job, a mate, a home - i.e. "launched" and independent. 27 seems to be a somewhat arbitrary number as is my list of "launched" criteria, but in the US kids can no longer be on their parents health-care plans after age 26. That's a significant milestone for many.
- ascendantlogic 10y agoMy wife and I debated having kids. By my mid 30's I felt like I was living a stupid life that was basically me sitting around watching sports at bars and waiting for the next cool video game to come out. My son gives me life immense meaning, but boy have the stress levels gone up. There's no "right" answer, just the choices you make and the ramifications of them. For me it was stressful life full of meaning, or easy life that felt empty and meaningless.
- Dirlewanger 10y ago>But being a dad, society is all about that Except when it comes to family law, then the dad gets fucked into complete attrition.