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am_Unition  ·  3399 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It's Entirely Normal To Not Want Kids

Preface: I'm 27

1. I live in South Texas

2. Been with my girlfriend for almost 4 years

3. My younger sister isn't seeing anyone, and it doesn't look like she will be anytime soon

4. I want to get my PhD before I plant the seed

5. My girlfriend wants another degree or two as well before she cuts off that glorious birth control (which she meticulously takes every night, she rocks, major props)

6. My parents are Southern Baptist, and have probably figured out I'm having mad sex out of wedlock, in addition to a(n unreasonable?) yearning for grandchildren.

7. Almost every familial get together, I face a barrage of "guess which one of your cousins is engaged and/or pregnant!"

8. I live in South Texas

Also, I live in South Texas.





_refugee_  ·  3399 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ha, I have three male cousins that live somewhere in Texas (we haven't met since I was quite wee) and all three of them "had to get married," as I was told by another Southern cousin a few years back. In polite Southern society "had to get married" means "knocked their girlfriends up."

You'd think by the third cousin (they were all brothers), he might've learned from the mistakes of the first two.

iammyownrushmore  ·  3398 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    7. Almost every familial get together, I face a barrage of "guess which one of your cousins is engaged and/or pregnant!"

I swear to god this is all we're going to talk about when I visit my southern baptist family in Houston over the holidays.