public notice to people who are probably not the people reading this

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Please stop insinuating that because I'm 30 and in a long term monogamous relationship that I should turn all my attention to how much I want to have a baby. I am not interested. This might change, and it might not. My uterus is not on anyone's timeline but mine, and I am not prepared to bring a kid into the world when I would resent all the time and focus it would take away from other things I want to accomplish.

If I decide to have a kid, I will let you all know, I promise. I'll have a little party and you can buy it clothes and guess what I might name it and everything. I might even decide to be terribly old fashioned, and, you know, get married first. Until then, kindly do me a favor and shut up.

Comments

[sithlet.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad that both 433 and my siblings have chosen to reproduce. We're both adamantly anti-having-kids-of-our-own and perfectly content to be aunt and uncle. We've both also been very clear with our parents about our plans to NOT make babies. The pressure is kind of OFF, since his brother and sister-in-law have had two (boy + girl) and my brother and sister-in-law have had one and are planning another someday.

[sithlet.livejournal.com]

Good catch! Well, rather, a poorly worded sentence. 433's sibling and my sibling have both reproduced with their respective mates.