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posted by [personal profile] puszysty at 06:25pm on 16/11/2009
I've been approved to take time off to go home. This comes on the same day that my friends from home announced they want to make plans for the holidays. *sigh* I hope they remember I don't have a car.

One of my friends in said group just had a baby last month. Is it bad of me that I really hope she doesn't bring the kid to whatever gets planned? If she does, everyone's going to be cooing over it the whole time, and frankly not how I want to spend the little time I have with said friends. Plus the fact that, and I'm sure I've mentioned this before, I really really don't like kids. Especially babies. (This is also part of the reason I don't date. I know my chances of finding someone who doesn't want kids is slim.)

I know it's unfair to slap the experience of the few onto the many, but I have had not so positive experiences with new parents. When my relatives had kids, they lost all semblence of their own personality. After reading The Feminine Mystique, maybe that's the product of being children of the 60s, who knows. After grandma died, there was no one left on that side of the family I could relate to anymore. My aunts and uncles only talk about 2 things: what's going on in their kids lives, or their own lives back in the 60s/70s. Although now that my oldest cousin is 13 (yes, oldest), we actually managed to have a real conversation last time I went to a family function.

In conclusion: I'm worried that my friend having a kid is going to completely screw up the dynamic we've had for years. Am I legitimately concerned? Or just overblowing it?
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posted by [identity profile] rap541.livejournal.com at 12:39am on 17/11/2009
Augh, no yer not overblowing it. Once they have kids, people just assume you wnt to be interested in their kids.
 
posted by [identity profile] musiquedevie.livejournal.com at 02:21pm on 17/11/2009
I think you have a legitimate feeling. When kids get involved or people get married; it does change dynamics - that's just life. *shrug*
 
posted by [identity profile] phaballa.livejournal.com at 05:11pm on 18/11/2009
You should be legitimately concerned. In my experience, when your friends have kids, the kids become the center of their lives and they are ALL your friends will want to talk about. Everything will always come back to The Kids. It's so fucking annoying. I'm going to this Thanksgiving thing on Saturday, and I'm kind of dreading it because I know my 2 friends who just had babies will be bringing the babies. And one of them is especially obnoxious about it, demanding that everyone tell him that his baby is the cutest baby ever.

I think if he does that, I'm going to be like, "Whatever, you're baby is only a 4, 5 at most. He's not even as cute as Trig Palin, and Trig is retarded." You probably shouldn't say that though. I will get away with it because that guy already hates me and they all know i hate kids.

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