I am certainly not a mental health monolith,
Personally, I think of you as Not!Insane.
Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.
'Dirty Girls'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
DavidS - Jan 05, 2014 7:16:44 am PST #7810 of 30002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Steph L. - Jan 05, 2014 7:17:30 am PST #7811 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Personally, I think of you as Not!Insane.
I've got it framed and everything!
Wait, no. I am not Homer Simpson.
WindSparrow - Jan 05, 2014 8:29:21 am PST #7812 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Questions, questions, questions.
After a while I wanted to start telling people who asked when Daniel and I are getting married, "We postpone the wedding six months every time someone asks." In fact I only worked up the nerve to say it out loud to my BFF, who has better right to ask than many. We had a good laugh over it.
omnis_audis - Jan 05, 2014 9:07:20 am PST #7813 of 30002
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
and a damn good kisser, too.
::blush::
------ Personally, I think the notion of couples NOT reproducing is survival of the species. If an animal looks around and doesn't see enough resources for offspring, they are less likely to reproduce. Clearly, we humans are starting to over populate the earth. Some areas more than others. There is nothing wrong with not wanting to have kids.
(Mind you, this is coming from the perpetually single guy, so it might be a bit of sour grapes syndrome. I also have genetic disease, and don't want to pass those along).
Connie Neil - Jan 05, 2014 9:13:39 am PST #7814 of 30002
brillig
I have never been more grateful for a decision in my life than to put off having kids until we were better situated, despite everyone saying "God will provide." The idea of having to deal with kids and what kids need through all this makes my brain break. I have been called selfish, and I'll own that all day long.
meara - Jan 05, 2014 10:08:01 am PST #7815 of 30002
I'd love to have kids, but not alone, and I'm getting older, so...yeah.
Someone convince me in about 3 hours that I really DO want to go to the new yoga place down the block and check it out/take a class. Even if it will probably be full of new year's resolutions (also WTF why do they only have 3 classes on Sat and 3 on Sun??).
Pix - Jan 05, 2014 11:33:45 am PST #7816 of 30002
The status is NOT quo.
I would have loved to have one child, but it's not in the cards. I'm lucky that I don't face the question too often. It's very painful for me.
Dana - Jan 05, 2014 11:37:14 am PST #7817 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Another reason why it's a shitty thing to hound people about.
Aims - Jan 05, 2014 11:44:04 am PST #7818 of 30002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
It really, really is.
People have asked us why we "chose" to have one child and "isn't she lonely?" and "now she'll have to take care of both of you by herself".
Yeah - didn't choose it, people. Shut it.
erikaj - Jan 05, 2014 11:57:03 am PST #7819 of 30002
Always Anti-fascist!
"When are you gonna die?" (/Jerry Seinfeld) The teacher my mom works with(but only for a little while longer) tried the only child thing on a woman whose only child is a thirty-year-old teacher. Like that woman can get back in her time machine and fix it, even if she thinks there's something to fix.