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Heads up, if you like playing with my kids, I enjoy having you around even if you don't have kids! That's how most of my pre-kids friends preserved their relat

• JohnMakin 2y ago
  It feels unnatural as a single unmarried, slightly on the spectrum male in his 30’s to be interacting with other people’s children that I haven’t had a long relationship with the parents. I think most parents would agree. I am great with kids though, but mostly in the terms of people my age I can meet, they are in their 30’s with kids.
  • Fire-Dragon-DoL 2y ago
    In my mind it was a situation where you start chatting with the parent and then it's the kid to involve you in some way, but your reasons are not wrong, makes sense.
• ASalazarMX 2y ago
  But yikes, some of us decided not to have kids because we don't like kids a lot. Having that as a requirement is a self-fulfilling comfort bubble though, I can see the reasoning.
  • Fire-Dragon-DoL 2y ago
    I mean, you are free to do whatever you want, I was giving a suggestion in case people were not aware. It's usually challenging to keep being friends with a person who doesn't want to be with your kids once you have them. It's similar to the situation when you don't like someone's partner, there isn't much you can do.