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I can't have kids. Dying alone is my fate, nothing I can do about it. ____ It's something I think about a lot. I have siblings and niblings, but I live in a 3
by ryzvonusef 2y ago
I can't have kids. Dying alone is my fate, nothing I can do about it.
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It's something I think about a lot. I have siblings and niblings, but I live in a 3rd world country and my goal in life is to escape to some first world country.
If I escape, I will die alone abroad; but while I live, I'll be able to make my life and the life of my loved ones better.
If I stay, I might be able to count on my nephews/nieces to check on me in old age...but depending on how life goes and what the economic conditions are, it's much more likely that...
Not only do I live a terrible life, but when I am old and my siblings dead, my niblings will ignore me, unable to take care of another burden, nor would I want to be such a burden on them.
Which lends me back to option 1: go abroad... then maybe retire back here? But then I would have no connection, and nor would they have one with me.
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I'v seen this happen here a lot. A lot of people I know lived their lives in the Gulf... used to a certain standard of living and having barely any connection to the relatives back home.
They educated their kids and sent then to uni in 1st world countries, while they retired to big palatial homes here.
But now they are alone, their kids have no reason to come back after uni to the big 3rd world homes their fathers built... and the relatives here have no connection to the uncle/aunt from the gulf they saw once every three years.
The kids are alone abroad, the parents are alone here. No one wins.
- layer8 2y agoYou could adopt a child once you live abroad.
- DiggyJohnson 2y agoHow familiar are you with adoption in the first world? Single, older gentleman do not usually get approved or have the resources to adopt. Being an immigrant probably doesn't help, either.
- layer8 2y agoI was assuming he’d be neither single nor old. Otherwise he shouldn’t have a child anyway.