I’m not saying everyone who marries or has kids is doing it for the wrong reasons but I genuinely think for a lot of people, it’s less about love or legacy and more about avoiding solitude. It’s like being single past a certain age is treated as a failure or worse - a sign there’s something wrong with you. So people chase relationships and parenthood not out of deep desire but out of fear. Fear of ageing alone. Of being unremarkable. Of sitting with their own silence.
Then they justify it with “biological clocks” or “it’s what I’ve always wanted” but how much of that is just internalised panic? AIBU to think that the obsession with coupledom and kids is, in part, a socially accepted way of running from yourself?