I think I would really like to have kids, except most ppl with kids seem to have an unhappier life, no free time, much higher stress, and a worse relationship with their partner. That's a scary thing to willingly enter into.
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What's the solution here? Fleet of nannies?
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re: many of the comments, I'm more concerned for me specifically compared to most people. I'm pretty aneurotypical, I have an extreme aversion to mundane tasks to the point that my life has suffered from it, I'm highly novelty optimizing, i have sensory issues and kids make noise
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like I think maybe I've cooked a meal twice in my life? Because making food is an agonizing experience. Probably if I have kids they will need food, though!
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I've cooked for my kid (age almost 5) literally 1000X more than I ever cooked for myself in close to 39 years.
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the thought I will need to start cooking for a child fills me with dread, like it significantly updates me towards not having kids
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How do you... get food? Just eat frozen stuff? Live off slices of deli meat?
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You sound like you might have some undiagnosed learned helplessness - the thing you’re missing is practice works, and some things are harder to practice than others, but practice still works.
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Can you make French fries, chicken nuggets, hotdogs and Mac n Cheese? Later you’ll need to make pizza, spaghetti and hamburgers.
Good luck with salads until they’re 10 and any vegetable that isn’t in a stick or chip form.
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You might need toast, eggs, bacon and pancakes. Mostly just cereal though TBH.
Every once in while you pour some chicken noodle soup in a pot and heat it up.
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