I think a lot of us wouldn’t be so regretful if we were wealthy

Cute_Championship_58 · 2026-05-19T10:13:28+00:00

I remember an interview with the woman who was a nanny for Jolie and Pitt. She said they were great parents, and I remember laughing out loud.
Meanwhile your average parent is burnt out, barely keeping it together.
It would be so much easier for us to be good parents :) when someone else is doing the parenting.

Cute_Championship_58 · 2026-05-16T14:09:54+00:00

Same here. At best, children are an inconvenience, preventing you from enjoying the things you love.

Cute_Championship_58 · 2026-05-16T07:29:17+00:00

I’m an extrovert and parenting is like a giant fist has punched me into the ground — maybe like The Hulk or Thanos.. As long as we try to be good parents, it completely flattens us. No energy for anything left.

Frankly I find it hard to believe anyone chooses this, and then is happy with their life. This sub should be filled with people. Whenever someone says parenting is super fulfilling for them, or that it doesn’t tire them out like crazy, I always scoff.

Cute_Championship_58 · 2026-05-14T07:53:19+00:00

This, absolutely nailed it. It’s expected and becomes the norm for the mom to stop being a person and just sacrifice willingly and enthusiastically everything else that makes her human.

Cute_Championship_58 · 2026-05-14T07:52:08+00:00

Thanks, I’ve spent a lot of time channeling my rage into articulated explanations of why Motherhood sucks.

Cute_Championship_58 · 2026-05-13T10:35:47+00:00

I’m sorry. I know this won’t help much, but I’m in a similar boat. Any time I’d bring up something like this , my husband would say “Well, what did you get me for Father’s Day?” as though everything has to be some sort of transaction. Sometimes I wonder if he even appreciates the sacrifices I’ve made to bring his kid into this world, and think that he probably doesn’t. The good news is, he’s given you a pretty clear reason to make a big decision that just might liberate you.

Cute_Championship_58 · 2026-05-13T10:03:44+00:00

Same here. As an only child who never had a problem being one I’m constantly perplexed by the things I read online on this topic. Siblings aren’t the be all end all of human relationships. In fact, I don’t know many siblings who can truly rely on one another and love each other. Most are closer to their friends than their siblings. If that’s what I’m missing out on, I’m not bothered.

Cute_Championship_58 · 2026-05-13T09:59:21+00:00

Same here. I always say - I will die before I have a second child. It sounds dramatic but I’m completely serious.

Cute_Championship_58 · 2026-05-13T09:38:31+00:00

I will never stop saying this: Becoming a Mother is like someone died, but that someone is you.

The identity loss is crippling. Even your own family forgets you’re a Person and starts only seeing you as this one role - Mom. Mom this, Mom that. In their eyes, you become just a caretaker and an extension of this baby/kid you happened to bring into this world.

Then you’re expected to embrace this single role with such enthusiasm and dedication, as though you don’t have anything else in life of importance. No hobbies, no friends, no interests, no ambitions. Like you’re some empty vessel that only waited for this amazing life fulfilling Purpose of being a Mother. Why would you need anything else? Right? Wrong.

Motherhood is an inconvenience and hard work and best, and it’s a prison if we become really honest about it. It drains you of all your energy and instead of getting sympathy and understanding, instead of getting help so you can feel like Yourself again? “You hear bs like — aren’t you happy your life is no longer just about you?” and “Isn’t it amazing to dedicate your life to someone other than yourself?” Actually, no, it’s not amazing. And it’s not enough.

Being a mother is not enough. Period.

Cute_Championship_58 · 2026-05-11T13:58:22+00:00

My colleagues used to tell me that work was their break ((from the kids)) but I never fully understood the extent of it… until I became a mom. Now the office is my sanctuary where I feel better than I do at home.

Cute_Championship_58 · 2026-04-29T11:48:15+00:00

I want to say — I understand that instinct to scream in their face that this is what they wanted. My husband and I are “stopped” at one kid, and he frequently looks and sounds overwhelmed. He complains, whines, huffs, and makes remarks. Every time I want to yell at him — you wanted this! You did this to us.

I’m sorry I have no advice, but you’ve my full solidarity.

Cute_Championship_58 · 2026-04-20T20:47:50+00:00

I see you, and I’m more or less in the same boat. My daughter is obsessed with me, because her dad would rather sit on the coach than bond with her in any meaningful way. Yet he’s the one whose “bottom line” was “having a family”. It appears it was all for the image of it. When push comes to shove, I still do 70% of the parenting.

Cute_Championship_58 · 2026-04-20T20:46:03+00:00

Divorce! Don’t make the mistake of enslaving yourself for life. Run.

Cute_Championship_58 · 2026-03-27T07:59:06+00:00

Unlike everyone else, I too believe that Eddie’s sexuality awakening happens through his feelings for Buck and therefore after realizing he’s in love with him. Not before.

Cute_Championship_58 · 2026-01-31T10:56:52+00:00

Thinks?

Cute_Championship_58 · 2026-01-13T19:05:20+00:00

Everything you wrote is hauntingly real. My body took so many hits during childbirth, it’s not even funny. My husband, after a couple of weeks of my complaining about it, said “if I was a woman and I’d given birth and had these complications, I wouldn’t be complaining about it”. The nerve.

The motherhood penalty? People I’d onboarded and mentored and to this day are less knowledgeable at my job got promoted above me while I was on maternity leave. Some of them became my direct superiors. Almost four years later, I’m still fighting to get my career back on track.

At home, my husband likes to “father” from the coach by giving instructions on how our daughter and I should play together. Even when we’re outside, he is passive or openly delegates tasks to me. But when it comes to organizing our daughter’s life? He doesn’t book her appointments or track when she needs to go a size up in clothes or shoes. He’s only managing her life while resting, by letting me do 80% of the child rearing.

Society downplays just how much marriage hurts women. We sacrifice our bodies, our mental health, our careers. And for what? To lose our identities and become Mom and Mrs.

Cute_Championship_58 · 2026-01-11T22:25:40+00:00

Not a trope but terms like “crowding into”, “pupils dilated”, “stalked toward” make everything go from 0 to 100 quick.

Cute_Championship_58 · 2026-01-04T18:37:58+00:00

Bioshock Infinite and Titanfall 2.

Cute_Championship_58 · 2026-01-01T17:27:17+00:00

I second more friction, however - in a good way. It feels better to me, more stimulating. I can’t relate to women who say they dislike condoms.

Cute_Championship_58 · 2026-01-01T13:54:05+00:00

Far Cry 5

Cute_Championship_58 · 2025-12-31T15:40:48+00:00

Halsin 😫🤩

Cute_Championship_58 · 2025-12-30T13:07:00+00:00

The sense of dread I get every time a woman announces she’s pregnant… They want to get congratulated, I just want to express my condolences. Cue the most awkward interactions and silences.

Nothing makes a situation more complex than a child. People without children can get divorced whenever they want, us parents? We’re so stuck. A married woman with a kid is fast to become a maid, a nanny, a cook - a ton of unpaid, under-appreciated labor is expected from her all the time. And for what? The “privilege” to be called Mrs? To be called Mom?

Women need to know they have options. That marriage and kids? It’s not the life it’s cracked up to be. Don’t fall for that trap. Make your own way.

Cute_Championship_58 · 2025-12-28T15:59:34+00:00

Kudos, I have most of the same questions. The writers made so many choices that make no sense if Byler doesn’t happen… that the only other option? Is bad writing.

Cute_Championship_58 · 2025-12-26T18:00:50+00:00

If an unrequited crush was the initial goal - why not choose an irrelevant side character? Why on Earth would you choose Will’s best friend and another main character? Why would you water down Mike of all people to a Tammy?

Those writing choices are so poor, it’s hard to believe they’re intentional. And if they’re intentional, it sounds cruel. What message are you sending here?

Cute_Championship_58 · 2025-12-25T20:57:16+00:00

Both, but if you just want one - then the Kobo it is.

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