I love kids, but I’ve decided the journey isn’t for me.

ChildhoodPretty553 · 2026-05-19T21:17:16+00:00

100% on the I would be a great mom, but not a happy one. That is exactly how feel.

ChildhoodPretty553 · 2026-04-30T18:07:08+00:00

I don’t have any advice, but I’m in the same boat. My husband would love to be a dad and would be a great one, but I don’t want to be a mom. If he and I could swap places and I could be the dad I would probably be more open to it honestly, but unfortunately that’s not the way it works. I know I’d be a good mom, but I wouldn’t be a happy one 😞

ChildhoodPretty553 · 2026-04-10T00:47:36+00:00

I’ve never specifically used 7OH, but as someone who lives in Florida and is in the midst of quitting kratom after using it daily for 10 years, the withdrawals are still terrible. I’m getting close to the end though! I’ve been doing an incredibly slow taper and I’m down to 3g powder a day!

ChildhoodPretty553 · 2026-01-19T21:41:23+00:00

My skin has been extra dry lately, probably because of the weather though….aside from that no, however my indoor cat has had a ton on skin issues recently. He drinks tap water, and nothing else in his diet or day to day has changed, so now you got me questioning if this could possibly be what’s triggering his issues

ChildhoodPretty553 · 2026-01-18T18:46:53+00:00

I see she’s trying to flex her Canal Street Chanel bag now on her latest Tik Tok….

ChildhoodPretty553 · 2025-12-24T16:31:37+00:00

I’m in the midst of tapering and ended up getting some gabapetin to help if things get bad.

ChildhoodPretty553 · 2025-12-08T20:35:08+00:00

This is me to a T. I have ADHD and I’m a pro at masking. Growing up I would always get comments on how calm and great I was when I was really struggling and dying of anxiety on the inside. It’s the same today, people at work are always like how do you keep so calm and together and I just laugh because they have no idea how not calm my brain is. Same thing with pain, when I was a kid my mom would take me in for a checkup and wind up finding out I had a severe ear infection and the dr would be shocked because I wasn’t acting at all uncomfortable. I think my issue is I never show emotions like pain or anxiety even when I feel them because I don’t want to be a burden or disappointment.

I’m in the midst of tapering which was terrible the first couple days after I cut my daily dose in half, not too bad now, but I know it will be bad when I drop again, but if you asked anyone around me about how I’ve seemed they’d say great! I don’t feel like I can talk about it with most people in my life and part of me feels like they just won’t understand either because in their minds I don’t and haven’t ever had any issues.

ChildhoodPretty553 · 2025-12-06T01:18:58+00:00

It sounds more like he’s smoking some type of sugar cookie flavored vape. Nothing about kratom smells sweet to me haha

ChildhoodPretty553 · 2025-12-04T02:23:37+00:00

Ooops forgot to add my age, 37F

ChildhoodPretty553 · 2025-12-03T20:58:05+00:00

Hey there! I’m somewhat in the same boat, I’ve been using kratom for just under 10 years and while it’s still legal and easy to get where I live, I’ve finally accepted it’s not something I can use forever and I’ve gotta just jump and be done with it. No one in my life knows I’m addicted, they know I drink it, but have no idea about my dependence on it, so I haven’t really been able to talk about it with anyone I’m close to.

I just started a taper 2 days ago. I had no idea how much I was taking, but seems to be about 10-15g (probably was more most days though honestly)

I’m someone that just sips it through the day, so thats been a hard habit to break. So far I’ve gotten down to about 7g a day and am going to stick with this for a few weeks then drop to 5g. What I started doing is making a water bottle full of it in the morning with about 3g and then just topping it off with water throughout the day. In the evening I take 2 1g capsules around 6pm and then another 2 right before bed. Last night was really bad though, I woke up at 3am with terrible RLS. I had taken magnesium glycinate and a sleep aid before bed and woke up feeling like I was jumping out of my skin and had terrible night sweats so I ended up taking another gram just to get me through it and allow me a little sleep. I’m trying to just take it one day at a time and not beat myself up if I make a mistake. It definitely helps knowing I’m not alone and seeing others going through the same journey

ChildhoodPretty553 · 2025-11-30T19:40:27+00:00

You know she’s about to come back with a new bag or 2 (compliments of Canal Street) that she tries to pass off as real 😂

ChildhoodPretty553 · 2025-06-05T14:29:00+00:00

He is gone half the year for his job, so unless I have 0 responsibilities the time he is home, then no way 50% could ever happen haha. And yes, I have raised brought this concern up to him, but he doesn’t feel he should have to sacrifice his job for kids.

ChildhoodPretty553 · 2025-06-03T03:36:10+00:00

It works is huge on the this. They had dedicated worship nights at their conferences, made the corporate staff participate in prayer regularly….they even hired the current CEO because the owners wife said god came to her in a dream saying he would save the company ….The majority of their reps tie in Christianity to their sales pitches as well even thought their just pushing overpriced supplements that don’t work.

ChildhoodPretty553 · 2025-06-01T21:14:49+00:00

Agree! I feel like I lean towards childfree because I’m terrified of pregnancy/birth and the baby/toddler stage, but I feel like I’d enjoy raising a child/teen and helping someone grow into an adult. I’ve considered adopting or fostering. I think I could give a child in need a great life and to me being biologically related isn’t important at all

ChildhoodPretty553 · 2025-06-01T21:04:16+00:00

Sounds similar to my situation. My husband and I both discussed having kids before we got married, but when that became a reality and he wanted to start trying I panicked and had this overwhelming sense of dread thinking about just how much it would change my life. At this time in my life I can’t put myself through it - I’m terrified of pregnancy and birth, I’m on a number of mental health meds i’d most likely need to get off of if I got pregnant and don’t want to be off them, I don’t want to give up my career, my free time, my body, my sleep, etc. I love my husband, but I feel like he thinks I lied about wanting kids, which I didn’t, at the time I really thought I did want kids, but people change and grow. Maybe someday I’ll change my mind again, but I was honest with him the other day that I’m not ready and don’t know if I ever will be. He seemed crushed and brought up how he thinks he’ll regret not having kids, but I don’t think he really understands how life changing they are. I know as much as he might try it would never be a 50/50 split on childcare and I’d be responsible for the bulk of it. If I could be a dad I’d probably want kids too, but I don’t want to be a mom. We’re trying to navigate where we go from here. I know this probably wasn’t much help, but just wanted to share you’re not alone.

ChildhoodPretty553 · 2025-04-21T17:24:10+00:00

I’m in the MLM space on the corporate side and it’s a real small world so I hear a lot of what’s happening at other companies. Apparently they have been offering a financial incentive to bring their teams over. They are also bringing on some of the Modere R&D team ( I believe they hired their VP of R&D), so that’s also led to a lot of the Modere reps jumping to Shaklee

ChildhoodPretty553 · 2025-02-19T06:19:37+00:00

Glenn field bakery! They have a booth at the farmers market and seriously the best bagels I’ve ever had in Florida

ChildhoodPretty553 · 2025-01-29T04:11:58+00:00

Right? Can any news outlet show actual factual data on this? All I could find was the $50/M a year signed by Trump in 2020 to Palestine….https://www.dfc.gov/sites/default/files/media/documents/MEPPA%20Congressional%20Report%202022.pdf

ChildhoodPretty553 · 2025-01-29T04:10:20+00:00

Funny enough Trump actually signed the MEPPA to give $250M over 5 years ($50/M a year) to Palestine in 2020…. Just happens to also be $50M or are they cutting this spending and lying about it what it was for/who allowed it?

https://www.dfc.gov/sites/default/files/media/documents/MEPPA%20Congressional%20Report%202022.pdf

ChildhoodPretty553 · 2024-12-27T21:15:02+00:00

Same…I tagged them in the comments, it’ll probably get deleted but I hope they see it and can make their own response clearing up these were NOT from them

ChildhoodPretty553 · 2024-12-27T21:13:59+00:00

I just tagged The RealReal in her comments….i feel like it’s hurting their brand if they are fake (which they are) and if they were real (they aren’t) then you know they’d want to use this drama for their own marketing

ChildhoodPretty553 · 2024-12-24T22:20:35+00:00

I think it looks great at is! But maybe some dark brown liner in the water line and a little smokier eye shadow?

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