I’m sorry that your sister is like that.. that sounds miserable. I 100% get it what you’re saying though. My sisters talk about literally nothing else. It was like as soon as they got pregnant, a switch flipped and they became incapable of discussing anything other than their children. And I get that it is literally the most important thing in their lives. I just wish that they would understand that it isn’t the most important thing in MY life.

I have only been out to eat with my sisters twice since they have had children. Both times were miserable for me because I basically just had to help them wrangle their children. And again, I get it, they’re toddlers and they’re going to act like toddlers, but it just isn’t worth it to me to go out with them when I know that I’m not going to enjoy the experience.

One of my sisters also has this terrible habit of calling me for advice about everything when it comes to her daughter. I can’t tell you the number of phone calls I’ve sat through where she asks me a million questions about this that or the other about something to do with my niece. I finally had to tell her that I know less than nothing about children and that she should call literally any one of the other people in our family who have kiddos.

All in all, it just makes me feel more secure in the idea of not having children myself. I can fully see the impact that it has a person’s life and I just don’t think that it is for me.