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it's actually quite amusing how many parents say it gets better when the children leave the nest. then why have children!?
by princeb 4y ago
it's actually quite amusing how many parents say it gets better when the children leave the nest. then why have children!?
- apohn 4y ago>it's actually quite amusing how many parents say it gets better when the children leave the nest. then why have children!? There are lot of places in the world where there is no expectation that the children will leave the nest. The whole "I can't wait till my kids are 18 so I can kick them out and get my life back" is only a phenomenon in some cultures.
- actionfromafar 4y agoIt's also great. Hard to explain. I would be careful telling childless people how great it also is. (If childless is by choice, I don't want to obnoxious. If it isn't by choice, I don't want to make them sad for something they might never have.) It changes your life in a weird way. Stuff can be hard and still worthwhile.
- Al-Khwarizmi 4y ago“There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.” ― Woody Allen, Annie Hall