Comic Strips

I have always said when you really think about statements your relatives/friends make, they are just nice ways of saying really personal topics.

Nice: Isn't it time for you to work on having a baby?
Unfiltered: Are you going to get rawdogged a few times until your eggs get fertilized?

Nice: Boy it must have been a cold winter.
Unfiltered: You fucked a lot 9 months before September didn't you?

Nice: You should experience being a parent! We can have playdates together.
Unfiltered: You should have a child so you can understand the horror I went through and we can trauma bond.

i have no idea how many times i had to tell my parents and grandparents that we have decided to not have children, but over the course of ~6-8ish years, it was consistently asked more than once every time we saw each other.

was not a big fan of having other people's wants being thrust into my life as if they are more important than my own.

thankfully, still kid free at 41.

I see not having children is a form of harm reduction at this point. We only have a few more years before we are choking on dust storms and famine. I don't want to put a child through that.

I will be the first person to be happy to be proven wrong and do what i can to try and not have that happen but I'm not willing to gamble the suffering of my child on it not happening.

There is this short moment in time between "Don't you touch my daughter" and "when will we have grandchildren"...

One of the few reasons I’m glad I don’t have living parents.

I think my mom would have understood tho. She also never wanted kids and had 2 and sucked at it (she didn’t have my sister intentionally, and should have stopped, but then had me on purpose, and I got all her autism and all my dads adhd! So I was fun to raise!) and is why I got my tubes tied before ever being pregnant.

But in fairness all of the dudes I’ve dated.. their moms have been like yeah I wouldn’t want to raise kids with my kid either, don’t blame you.

Meh, I get it. They want babies again, babies that are very much their own. Also, we hope to correct the mistakes we made with brood 1.0.

My kids are 10 and 12 so I probably won't live long enough to see grand kids, but I sure ain't pressing the issue.

My wife and I used to get those questions from the family. They promptly stopped asking after my wife told them "when he's done making me his hoho and starts making me his twinkie". It always took a few seconds before it clicked. Their reactions to finally getting it were priceless.

When the younger generations can afford a flat or home