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"One of my reasons for not wanting children is because it would mean I could never be alone again."
Ironically, that's one of the main reasons people HAVE children: because they're terrified of being alone. One of the more selfish reasons, I might add! And it generally doesn't pan out, as we can see from this thread...
I was told by a friend that I should have kids - so I could have someone to love me! I just didn't know how to respond.
I also think a lot of these young girls around here in my area have kids because they are afraid of not being able to be successful at a job, career or whatever. With a kid or kids trailing behind them, they can at least say they are a "mom".
I don't travel during the insane holiday travel season and would never expect someone else to.
This year my husband's mother died two days before Thanksgiving and we had to wade into the Turkey Day Travel Revels of overbooked, crowded, weather-delayed, canceled flights. What should have been a $375 per person direct or one-stop flight turned into a last-minute $1,100 4 stop flight. Argh.
There have been a lot of threads on how to "make" your kids visit you - sort of asking to "You WILL visit us and you WILL enjoy it."
The hardest time for us was when our son went away to college, graduated, got a job in his 1,200-mile-away-city and was working full time while we were working full time. Not a lot of vacation time between us. Once we were semi-retired and more the master of our own schedules, it was easier to drive out and see him for a week or two at a time. Since we are the ones with the flexible schedules, it is easier for us to go to him than the other way around.
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