When Somebody Tells You They Don’t Want Children, Believe Them
It’s not an invitation to change their mind, argue, pressure, or blackmail
I was going to write this article later in the year for personal reasons — basically the tenth anniversary of my divorce. After seeing a Tweet with a Reddit screen grab, I feel the need to vent now to get my own thoughts and my past out in the open.
The TL;DR version of the below Twitter link is essentially this: boy meets girl, girl says she doesn’t want children, boy insists, girl refuses and says she wants a permanent sterilisation procedure, boy says “well let’s just have one kid to see if you like it!” Girl relents and inevitably becomes seriously depressed after realising what a huge mistake it was.
Yes her husband is a Grade A arse. But is he entirely responsible? No, not entirely.
But before you rage comment… I’m not blaming her — not in the slightest.
I’m blaming the pro-natalist peer pressure and the society that enables and encourages it.
