@Coldbrewchai@nienna121 i'm glad i'm not the only one who experienced the 30 questions bit lol, every new nurse and doctor asked if we wanted to, both me and hubs were like wtf
Men keep asking women to be ‘more feminine’, but what a lot of them really mean is ‘more forgiving of mediocrity.’
They don’t want softness.
They want submission to their lack of effort.
They want nurturing without accountability.
And they want praise just for being slightly less terrible than the last guy.
I think that if a man walks out on his wife who’s a stay-at-home mother in a no-fault divorce, she should get everything. All of it. 100%.
Why should it be her that has to start from scratch after she gave her life to their family, sacrificed everything she had before him and let him gain the life and career benefits of having a wife at home just because he decided to change his mind? If he wants to rip their family apart, he can be the one who has to start over.
People without children often believe their outsider perspective gives them clarity but clarity without experience is an illusion. Parenting isn’t an abstract concept you can deduce your way through; it’s a high-stakes, real-time, emotionally complex role that constantly forces you to adapt under pressure.
And no, “I was a kid once” is not a valid counterpoint. That logic is flawed. Being parented is not the same as parenting, just like being a passenger doesn’t teach you how to fly a plane. You saw one side of the dynamic, filtered through the lens of a child’s limited understanding. You weren’t the one managing tantrums, doctor visits, sleepless nights, developmental needs, safety, education, and emotional regulation all at once, for years.
Parenting is one of those things where you simply don’t know what you don’t know until you’re doing it. Advice from people without kids is usually based on idealized hypotheticals, not the ugly, complicated reality where every decision has trade-offs and none of the books fully prepare you.
Having opinions is fine. Giving advice without the weight of experience? That’s hubris dressed as insight.
Everyone is just like ‘lose weight and get jacked.’
I’m not sure most people are even biologically capable of this in the modern environment without drugs.
It’s like telling a poor person that has racked up five figure debt ‘Just make more money.’
Every now and then I get a jarring awareness of the lack of physical standards the average person has. Told someone I did a short 5 mile hike on the weekend and they treated it like an impossible distance and must’ve taken all day
@HeritageBerry got a barbie on sale at target without a bunch of the bits and bobbles they have to keep track of and put a gift receipt in the bag, my three year old is a boy and my only frame of reference is garbage trucks 😭😂
@Picks4Sale@igoy_k@YANI42KK@TheChiefNerd yes and generally they either get a full salary for 180 days and no paycheck for those 2 months off or they choose to get a reduced salary so they can still "collect" a paycheck those two months
I don’t say much about the Tate brothers because aside from being balding lower-order apes who ought to die in cages, I find them rather boring, but I must say I do find it kinda funny that the only people who seem to like them are deeply closeted homosexual men who hide behind Christian-nationalist identities and heavily-filtered trad women with daddy issues and a webcam schedule.
@AniseNot the term started because of the emotionally incestuous "i was their first kiss back off girlfriends" "who needs a lover when you have a mother" type of moms. i love my son but im not going to threaten his future girlfriends saying he loves me more lmao