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[blablover5]

Random questions for you ladies, because something has been spinning around in my head.

It's all regarding children. Do you have them, do you want them, do you know you'll never want them? However you feel, I'd like to know what drives that desire in you to have children or not. Have you changed your mind? Or could you see yourself ever changing your mind?

I know I'm leaving it kind of vague, but I'd just like to hear what your own desires and experiences are on this topic.

I want kids in a few years as does my husband. In fact I think he probably wants them more.

I think my drive is a lot to do with finding joy in playing with kids and toddlers and feeling like I can probably corrupt some young minds quite easily.

And if for some reason we couldn't have kids then I want dogs, tons and tons of dogs. Okay so we'll have a dog before the kids anyway.

 

[May 20]

I wanted to be a mom before I really understood that I needed a husband first. LOL I can't remember not wanting to have children. Even so, we were married six years before we decided to start trying for kids. So, Kestra, unless your biological clock is counting down, you have time to decide if you want to have children. My most serious bit of advice is this -- do everything you think you have to do in this life before you have kids. Travel, finish your education, establish your career, whatever it is that you know you will regret not doing when you're 90. Yes, you can do all that stuff after kids, but it's easier before them. After them, they will require so much of your attention, either for their physical needs or their emotional needs that your needs will become secondary, so your wants are pretty much shelved for a while. LOL I love my kids and I'm very glad I'm their mother. If I could, I'd have more than the two that I have.

 

[Trippy]

I never really had the burning desire to be married and/or have children. I found myself pregnant (accidently, I was on the pill) by the man I was living with for four years previously. I decided to have the baby, my ex didn't want the responsibility and ran. I was 30 when my son was born (now 11) and I never looked back.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

*keeping quiet about one of the perks of being married*

Try having no guy...

There are ways around that.

I know...

 

[trampledamage]

I never really had the burning desire to be married and/or have children. I found myself pregnant (accidently, I was on the pill) by the man I was living with for four years previously. I decided to have the baby, my ex didn't want the responsibility and ran. I was 30 when my son was born (now 11) and I never looked back.

Wow - I hadn't realised you'd done it all by yourself. I am very impressed!

 

[Trippy]

^thanks!

My son sees his dad on Sundays, but my ex really doesn't spend a lot of time with him. My son plays with kids in the neighbourhood instead.

 

[kimc]

I wouldn't mind children but only with the right man. For now I have the puppy.

 

[Kira's Mom]

I'd love to be a mom, but I'd have to find a good husband first...and that's looking less and less likely now.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

I can't even find the man.


Can you tell I'm feeling depressed tonight? I think I got dissed tonight.


I'm putting in my Sex in the City DVDs to cheer myself up. ((((

 

[Hermiod]

^Why ? Does your DVD player chew up and destroy discs ? If so, put them in two at a time!!! That'd cheer me up, no end!

 

[pookha]

i wanted to have kids but biology and situations were against me.

so a lot of maternal stuff goes toward my friends in the herd.

 

[blablover5]

I found the most horrifying ap for an iPhone. It's so men can track their womans (or womens in one case as it'll track up to three different women) cycle and tell them when she's most likely to PMS so he can "Keep his head down".

http://contexts.org/socimages/2009/02/25/new-technology-same-old-sexism/

Frankly I'd like to hope any guy that feels he has to have this is never allowed around a real woman.

 

[SiorX]

^I would really love to live in a world where I could be surprised by stuff like that.

Although, I'm slightly amused imagining the growing bafflement and anger of the kind of low-level primate who thinks this is funny or clever as he tries to chart the menstrual cycles of the women in his life in order to program the app.

She denied me sex today, so she must be PMSing. But on Tuesday she was PMSing because she got mad when I insulted her mother. But last Thursday she blew me off with that excuse about having to study and totally chewed me out when I came by and surprised her anyway. That must've been PMS too - oh no! My tiny brain can't make sense of the conflicting data!

And they call this rubbish "I am a man" (!!1eleven!!). If I were a bloke I think I'd want these people the hell out of my gender asap.

 

[Mallory]

I don't need an application to tell me. I just know when I get sent out to do a chocolate run the time is drawing near.

 

[blablover5]

^I would really love to live in a world where I could be surprised by stuff like that.

Although, I'm slightly amused imagining the growing bafflement and anger of the kind of low-level primate who thinks this is funny or clever as he tries to chart the menstrual cycles of the women in his life in order to program the app.

She denied me sex today, so she must be PMSing. But on Tuesday she was PMSing because she got mad when I insulted her mother. But last Thursday she blew me off with that excuse about having to study and totally chewed me out when I came by and surprised her anyway. That must've been PMS too - oh no! My tiny brain can't make sense of the conflicting data!

And they call this rubbish "I am a man" (!!1eleven!!). If I were a bloke I think I'd want these people the hell out of my gender asap.

I'm surprised some guys don't reinsate the old hut idea that women must be posessed by a deamon because every month something they think is icky and don't understand happens. So therefore all women are unclean and should go away til they're worth something again.

 

[Hermiod]

^Or, it could be that somebody stuck these apps up there, but nobody even looked at them until people started complaining.

Sort of like how there were many more people complaining about the violence in Manhunt 2 than there were people who actually bought the ridiculously awful game.

 

[blablover5]

You're kidding right? Someone took the time to make that just for shits and giggles? Hell to make two or three?

Ever looked at what women had to put up throughout history due to nature providing us a menstrul cycle? It's really awful.

Get off your high horse in thinking all women are out to get men and guys never do anything wrong. It's really getting tiring.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

I was under the impression that iTunes had a process of approving apps. Given how many developers who have complained about their apps not getting approved, I'm shocked this one got in.

Maybe Apple lowered their standards.

 

[Kemaiku]

I know, god forbid they channel that effort into say, being a bit more supportive during that time instead.

 

[Hermiod]

You're kidding right? Someone took the time to make that just for shits and giggles? Hell to make two or three?

It's not exactly hard to write iPhone apps. If I wasn't contractually prohibited from developing for competitors devices I'd do it myself.

Ever looked at what women had to put up throughout history due to nature providing us a menstrul cycle? It's really awful.

Please show me the post where I said it was all sunshine and ice cream.

Get off your high horse in thinking all women are out to get men and guys never do anything wrong. It's really getting tiring.

Get off of yours. I was agreeing with you. The apps are dumb but that doesn't change my point. You only encourage people to do shit like this by giving attention to it. That's why I pointed out Manhunt 2 as an example. The game was rubbish and its predecessor only sold a few copies because of the media attention it received.

Crusher Disciple - Apple does indeed have an approval process, but still some junk gets on there.