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From a pretty early age I decided I didn't want to get married or have kids cuz both my parents seemed utterly miserable. For a long time I found it weird anyone wanted to do it at all, why would you want to be trapped with someone you hate who you get into screaming arguments all the time?

And it's not just me, you see a lot of jokes online about people like playing that one scene from Marriage Story while playing old N64 games for nostalgia.

I think the experience of seeing our own parents be so miserable maybe soured a lot of us on starting families.

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[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

be me
have bad teeth, bad eyes, and a small mental illness starter collection that I'm still seeing a therapist for almost weekly at the age my dad had me
somehow manage to find a partner: "yeah, I know what pregnancy does to the body and I'm not a fan, what if we got a cat instead"
forced to buy into the Giant Scam Machine, the bottom of which might fall out at any minute, in order to have a hope of retirement
cat is the most adorable thing ever
study climate change adaptation and policy
struggle to find a job despite a gazillion college degrees
boomers are currently selling their houses for prices that can only be paid via dark bargains with rumplestiltskin
houses in question require a lot of work thanks to the all the deferred maintenance
yeah no I think I'm going to pass on the amazing opportunity to continue the human lineage, sorry ancestors

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