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jamcorrosion · 02/12/2025 23:37

I’m not sure how easy this is going to be to explain but here goes….

I was never dead set on having kids - no strong feelings either way. But then I got accidentally pregnant and had my DS almost 3 at 32. Since he existed I’m so glad he does and I know that without having a child it’s a feeling you can’t replicate or describe in a way that gives it justice. When I hear anyone say that they don’t want kids ever - obv it’s their choice their body, but how can you ever know that 100% unless you have one? Before mine I was more towards the no but how wrong I was!!

And following on from this - I’ve never been married or found my person and based on my experience i’m not missing much! But is this a similar situation like the above? You can’t possibly know how good it is until you have it? I don’t feel like I’m missing out but is that cause I don’t know what I’m missing?

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jamcorrosion · 23/12/2025 13:58

Swiftie1878 · 23/12/2025 09:43

Having very young children (and the relationship you have with them, the energy they take etc) is VERY different to having older/adult children. And the ‘young’ phase is actually, in retrospect, very fleeting.
Judgements or decisions based on having to deal with lack of sleep and toddler tantrums are a bit silly really. That’s a tiny, tiny part of being a parent.

Yeah it is! Time has never gone so fast since mine was born. I never really understood the ‘enjoy every moment’ and stuff people said to me when I was pregnant but gosh it absolutely flies once they’re here! Mine is 3 next month and it feels like yesterday I brought him home

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