
I can’t stand when women immediately go into marriage and kids. And they’re like “I didn’t want to go to college. Partying isn’t for me” like that’s fine but don’t you want to be able to have your own job and money just in case? The options aren’t a. Party b. Have kids. Like you can travel, get an education, learn another language, spend time with friends, pick up new hobbies
They never even TRY to have an independent life. And if this life just really is for them then that’s fine but they never even TRY to experience the world first. And they’re like “I can travel with kids” like be so serious. No one wants to travel across Europe with a baby or young kids. They’re bad on flights, they don’t stay awake long enough to really experience and enjoy the trip, they’re gonna wanna be in the quiet hotel most of the day napping, they’re gonna be bored or scared
the fact that they associate education = partying shows how those around them failed them. now look! ur tied down in ur early twenties cleaning up toys and doing laundry as ur most exciting event that day and ur friends are enjoying a trip to Greece paid for by degrees and jobs. then wanna be bitter abt it like u dug tht grave sis
my mom was a SAHM once for maybe a year and went back to work bc she knew it wasn’t realistic. mind you this was in the early 2000s… humans are not meant to parent and raise kids in isolation with no friends and nothing to do for the rest of their lives… and they wonder why their mental health suffers and they’re depressed. your brain is literally telling you that it’s over it.
What gets me is she’ll blame their friends for not stopping their lives for her. Like they’ll continue to do young adult things such as go to college and travel. And she complains that they “cut her off” like girl it’s not their fault you purposely made yourself home bound. It’s not their job to not experience life just bc you chose not to
people think i’m crazy for not wanting to get married at 30 and that my mom having me at 30 and my brother at 32 was too old… are we deadass? i’m almost 24 and if i got engaged right now? i would say no. if i was pregnant right now? abort. people have normalized doing things like this at way too young of an age and it’s genuinely bizarre.
adding on: i have two friends that had kids young (around the ages of 21-22) and i don’t talk to them anymore. like i’m living out my 20s and they’re parenting. people can’t get mad when they lose friends in their 20s because they decided to be moms and their friends are out having a blast. we just simply have nothing in common anymore and it really isn’t anyone else’s fault, but they can’t expect me (an almost 24 year old) to change my life to fit their lifestyle that i’m not part of.
I actually made a post the other day about how I always see women sympathizing with their mom and grandma. How they will encourage her to be single and experience life and these women do that in honor of the women in their family who couldn’t. I wish I had a family like that so bad. Instead I have a mom who plays with the baby clothes every time we go shopping and tells me she “needs” grand babies. She already has some from my brother. She’s been doing this since I was 20, I’m now 23. All the-
-women in my family only ever talk about when I’m getting married and having kids. They were mad I went to college but only fine with it bc they assumed it was my chance to meet a rich husband. I graduated single. Told them I’m going to grad school. Their response? “Are you even trying to find anyone? We need babies”
don’t give a single family member a baby. i told my mom i didn’t want kids YEARS ago. she’s fine with it. you know why? because my mom doesn’t like other kids… only the two she has. these SAHMs try to make it seem like all other moms like other kids aside from their own when that’s also not necessarily true 😭