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Originally Posted by Squishor
I'm surprised at how many people here responded that they don't like to be needed, since I have the impression that most people enjoy this type of relationship a lot more than I do, if only because of the sheer numbers who have children. To me that is the ultimate needy relationship (from conception) and the very thought gives me the shudders.
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Hmm, I never thought of it that way. I kind of hope to have children one day (maybe), but I always thought of it as being something I would do when I was in a more selfless stage of life. Obviously a child
would need its mother as long as it remained a child... but I wouldn't want it to be a relationship created for the sake of being needed. I like to think that I would have a child and deal with its needing me as an investment toward love (my own and my child's) in the future: need being a means and not an end.