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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
But your statements to me ring as it does for anyone who's not savored or sampled some tasty morsels of food. People saying, "Trust me after you try it you'll wish you tried it sooner."
Sure that may be the case, but taking a person who's been ignorant of the feelings their whole lives doesn't really comprehend what they are missing, nor will they ever no matter how many times someone says it.
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Being selfish in the long run leaves one alone. There are many things I want to do and have, which would be easier without a child, but I didn't want to wait so long to have children that I would be in retirement by the time they were ready for college. So despite misgivings, and longing for a simpler life my son was born last October.
Yes I wish I had done it sooner
Yes it complicated life a bit, but only a bit. Children are not that hard to deal with, if they were we would have died out as a species eons ago. We are still planning a trip to mexico in November, (without the child) still go out with friends, I still play my computer games, go to work, have my hobbies (going on a week long fishing trip in about a week) and very little has changed.
Children take but they also give back, there is an interdependency which strengthen both the child and parents (unlike pure dependency).