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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's made me more selfish. All I care about right now is my family. Granted, we went through hell to have our LO. Could be we're still getting used to finally being a family and we're just kind of high on it right now. But I know I must be a total bore to everyone else. [/quote] But you care about him or her. I was very self focused before children. In a rigid way. I wanted to be a nice caring person but was very hung up on my own routines and to be honest compulsive (e.g., compulsive exercise) habits. Having kids forced me to snap out of it and being forced to snap out of it (i.e., break the habits) was the best thing that might have happened to me. So maybe I'm not a better person but I'm certainly a happier person. (And I would have been a crap parent if I'd tried to have kids and still not change, which was my original plan but just not acceptable in the end.)[/quote]
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