At what age... (1 Viewer)

Welcome to our community

Be a part of something great, join today!

It seems the prevailing theme to settle down is "I'm bored". Kind of a lame excuse to do something like that. . As if you are submitting at life.

hoop fam

Or you get tired of whoring around and find someone you care about that you don't want to kick out of your bed in the morning
 
27 and still not there. I like Kids, and have fun with my younger cousins (Just got my youngest cousin hooked on Ducktales!) but I like to be able to give them back to their parents :)
 
I'm not saying you shouldn't have kids or settle down. .. just don't see the need to do so in your 20s when you can do so much more.

hoop fam

Different strokes for different folks.

I have friends on your level. They like to travel everywhere, party, etc. I like to kick it at home. I've always been more of a home-body.
 
And why can't I do all that same stuff when I'm in my 40s, my kids are grown, I make more money, and I'm mature and experienced enough to actually appreciate it in a way I wouldn't have been able to in my 20s?

You certainly can.

hoop fam
 
Or you get tired of whoring around and find someone you care about that you don't want to kick out of your bed in the morning

Yeah. Hard to decide that in your early 20s though. It's more of the pressure that "I wont be able to find anyone else again". Half of marriages don't work out anyway and the numbers are way worse for people who marry young.

hoop fam
 
Yeah. Hard to decide that in your early 20s though. It's more of the pressure that "I wont be able to find anyone else again". Half of marriages don't work out anyway and the numbers are way worse for people who marry young.

hoop fam

You don't win every game you play. You're just afraid of losing, so you don't even play the meaningful games, just scrimmages.
 
I'm 21 and not close to thinking about it. I do have several friends who are married or engaged already. Hopefully they don't start popping out kids.. Those kids are fucked.
 
yeah. But the advanced stats say to wait

hoop fam

Sure. But being in other long term relationships helped me realize what I wanted in a partner in order to settle down. What personalities work best with me etc.
 
I understand having children is a great joy for some people. IMHO no one should have children unless they feel that way. (The feminist slogan is "every mother a willing mother, every child a wanted child".) I honestly do not think I would be a success as a parent. I really am not a child person. Honestly. I see others cooing over babies and while I fully support social measures to help children and families the actual babies leave me unmoved. When I see a cat or kitten, OTOH, I just think "awww"! And also I did not enjoy childhood. Fuck, I hated childhood. I would not want to subject another human, especially one I cared about, to what I went through.

From the way you talk about your cats, I really do think you have children, just not in human form. I'm often impressed at the lengths you go for your pets.

Not everyone should have kids. I have friends who have replaced that desire with other things. In some cases, it's a pet or pets. In another, I have a friend of mine who never wanted kids but became a teacher. She fulfills her maternal desires through teaching others.
 
My cats are companions, not children. I hate it when people call me their "mom". I'm their human.
 
My cats are companions, not children. I hate it when people call me their "mom". I'm their human.

There are some pretty obvious similarities between having pets and having kids. Pets are just easier.
 
My cats are companions, not children. I hate it when people call me their "mom". I'm their human.

A maternal or paternal instinct doesn't have to be a strict parental relationship. My wife takes care of me and I take care of her, in much the same way we take care of our child.
 
I can't obviously comment on someone else's relationship but it seems to me "taking care of" a spouse is different from "taking care of" a child. A child is not really an equal relationship; it can't be, at least until the "child" is an adult.
 
if you have enough sex you will have kids by accident eventually

or a LOT of abortions
 
if you have enough sex you will have kids by accident eventually

or a LOT of abortions

Only if you are
1) straight and
2) fertile

I can have all the gay sex I want. Hell, I am of the age when a woman can have all the straight sex she wants.
 
Only if you are
1) straight
and
2) fertile

I can have all the gay sex I want. Hell, I am of the age when a woman can have all the straight sex she wants.

So, if I were gay, I could have straight sex and not worry about getting anyone pregnant? Gay people have it soooo easy.
 
i had friends in high school have kids at 15/16

freaking brutal
 
From the way you talk about your cats, I really do think you have children, just not in human form. I'm often impressed at the lengths you go for your pets.

Not everyone should have kids. I have friends who have replaced that desire with other things. In some cases, it's a pet or pets. In another, I have a friend of mine who never wanted kids but became a teacher. She fulfills her maternal desires through teaching others.

My sister is the same way. Been saying for as long as I can remember that shes never going to have kids and she never did (now late 30s). She did get two pugs however and treats them like baby humans.

I just can't stand even being near girls younger than 22 anymore

I'm 23 and I feel this way most of the time. Aside from one 20 year old its been over a year since I've been involved in any way with anyone under 25 years old. Granted the older ones were mostly kind of immature for their age but generally they're just more chill, straightforward, less mind games and insecurities, they seem to like my humor better.

Some of my best friends are girls about my age and their attitude toward sex and relationships and men seems to be driven by some primal intra-female competition. They're perfectly rational and often agree that they make no sense or in the heat of the moment make shallow decisions which might contradict what they say (men do this too, and I'm no different). They seemingly care more that everyone else knows they're having a good time than about actually having a good time. Seems like the older girls have grown out of this or something.
 
I got married at 23. I just turned 30 and my son is 2 1/2. I always knew I wanted kids and didn't want to be an old parent.
 
I got married at 23. I just turned 30 and my son is 2 1/2. I always knew I wanted kids and didn't want to be an old parent.

If you're mature enough to know what you want, that's a smart move. I'm going to be an old dad, and the thought isn't pleasant. I wasn't enough of an adult at 23, much less 30. Kudos to you. :cheers:
 

Users who are viewing this thread

Back
Top