My children only exist because of....

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Swan Lake. My children didn’t know I liked it till tonight so I told them it’s the reason they exist.

It’s like this:

Lonely musical little girl spends a decade dancing to the record
Is intrigued by the romance and mystery of Russia
Tries to go there
Gets as far as Prague
Meets man
Has babes

You?

I was a whistleblower at my job where senior male managers got their kicks out of sexually harrassing much junior women. And as a result I got shunted downwards into a different part of the company in a completely different country.

Met my DH my first weekend in new country in the hotel lobby. He'd moved to the hotel because his wife had kicked him out and moved her boyfriend into their house.

:)

A dud 80’s night and heavy rain!

Went to 80’s night with friends, turned out to be completely crap so left. Started walking towards city centre to find a decent club - but it started raining so we took shelter in nearest bar. Met DH at bar getting drinks in, 20 years later we’re married with 3 DC .

Met ex DH at a mutual friend’s Bon voyage party. Friend subsequently cancelled her trip. We lasted 13 years.

Wanted kids to be bilingual

My flatmate (new) persuaded me to meet her and her uni friends in a Wetherspoons as I was a little lonely after my move.
I met her uni friends. Got drunk. Chatted up a nice seeming bloke.

Reader: I married him.

DH and I were the only people working in my office on a bank holiday.

We got chatting, went for a drink, the rest is history!

Flights from Luton only going to Crete on Thursdays.

My DSis and I were booking a sun/sea holiday and didn't mind where, but we really needed to travel on a Thursday. Only choice therefore was Crete and met DH in a bar the first night. (also, nicotine addiction, as I went up to him asking to scab a fag)

Because I didn't get a promotion I went for at work. I thought fuck it, I'll have a baby now then instead of waiting a few years

Because their embryo split. I often wonder which twin I would have if it hadn’t split, or would they have been an entirely different child that was a mix of the two?

Ecstasy.

Well ds is the result of it. Dd is the result of low self esteem at the time, moving away from the fuck up that was my life and being low enough to start a relationship with her father.

Dh and I actually first met 6 years before. Both off our tits on Es, gurning our faces off. His mate and my mate pulled each other. We decided to talk bollocks to each other and had an on again, off again fwb type thing for a couple of years.

I found him again 9 years later outside a kebab shop, no ecstasy involved and have been together 13 years this summer. Ds is 5.

Because sometimes contraception doesn’t work. Sometimes condoms split. Sometimes the morning after pill doesn’t work. And sometimes, even when taken absolutely correctly, the pill simply doesn’t bloody work.

My child only exists because a girl I met once met a guy I've never met at a house party and pro-create. Less than 2 years later we adopted him.

Or from a different perspective: my son wouldn't have been a part of my family if I had chosen a different secondary school.

It was a close call between two. The one I picked was next door to a comp where I met a boyfriend at age 14. We broke up when I was 16. Our families had become friends. His sister and my brother then began dating years later. Her best friend and her fiance spent a lot of time with them, so the fiance and my brother became friends. Both couples split up but remain friends. My brother then introduces him to me. The rest is history....

given up on men after loads of rubbish relationships
bravely decide to go on holiday alone
meet a guy - holiday fling as he's a 'player' and men are rubbish
turns out he wasn't...
have a late period - false alarm - shocked at our disappointment
decide we actually want a family

Have you ever seen the film Sliding Doors...interesting concept.
My children exist because I was at a friend's wedding and when it ended a couple of guests wanted to go on to a night club and so I went with them, met my now ex there.

campanology - or bell ringing as we practitioners call it. I met DH (as he is now) in a bell tower.

My cousin.

The random chance that is Hall of Residence housing allocation.

A sympathy shag after England got knocked out of World Cup in 1998. We were already living together. But had planned to go to Australia for a road trip in 1999. Not have twins.

the rubbish 'natural' contraceptive gizmo called "Persona" ......remember that?

Believe it or not, you can still buy the thing
Don't all rush at once ...

www.weldricks.co.uk/products/persona-contraception-monitor-11?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=GoogleShop%22&gclid=Cj0KCQiAg_HhBRDNARIsAGHLV53T5HO2QCN_orqVxzODvx-i3TODvVEINm_hYAQ0Tci2qz_KtwJcmhkaAi6rEALw_wcB

Because of Slobodan Milosevic. Without him, I would not have been in the Balkans in 2000.

My mum forced me to go to a party

MSN chat rooms before the shut down... how I met DH.

DD is the result of the olympics, being away in London for 6 months working on the games and DH coming to visit in my fancy hotel for super Saturday during the middle of the games.

Met DP originally at a camp we had in 6th form. We were from different schools (from different countries actually) but met there and snuck off while everyone else was at a prayer meeting.
Then, years later, meeting him randomly through work in the USA and "eloping". We didn't want to get married but liked the idea of eloping and so ran away together for a month, not marrying but having a blast while worrying both of our families sick.
The actual conception came down to thinking "I'm 45, what are the chances?" and not using a condom.

So, Christian retreat, fake eloping, bad judgement.

Oh, and yeah, two Persona babies here too. Should have learned after one really

Not so far different from the whole natural cycles app which seems to be all the rage these days, but only 93% effective:
www.naturalcycles.com/en-us

Because it was raining