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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Obviously I don't know what it's like to be a parent.
I agree with that 100%.
This experience did give me a good idea of what day to day life would be like.
These are my observations:
1. My house was an absolute mess by the time the children left.
2. I can't have nice furniture and have children.
3. I barely spoke to my husband. We were both too busy wrangling children to communicate about anything other than what was happening at the exact moment.
4. I didn't want to be touched by my husband at the end of the day.
5. I spent A LOT of money.
6. I felt like a zombie amd was exhausted the entire time.

I took 2 personal days in order to do this.  I can't imagine having to work full-time, raise children and keep a house in order.  These things, I feel, are fair representations of things you experience and go through being a parent.  These things happen whether you're caring for your own children or someone else's child.[/quote][/b]

but OP, this is like if you didn't exercise and then ran a 10K one day. you'd be saying "wow that was hard! I had to stop to walk all the time and now I am super sore and can barely move. Running is so hard."  Well, ok, but you came it at pretty differently than everyone else out there did, so your experience is not exactly comparable. Of course if I take a day in my current life and compare it to a day from my pre-kid life it looks vastly different. But I didn't get there overnight, as you are advocating. Is it harder to keep a clean house and keep a relationship with your husband and maintain your energy level? of course. but you get a lot of practice by the time you have kids as old as the ones you watched. [/quote]

Based on the above comment Op sounds pretty superficial and self centered. I would not recommend that she have children. You've made a good decision to stay childless, OP![/quote]

You talk as though superficial/self-centered people don't have kids... believe me, lots of them do, and raise their precious babies to be just like them.
I'm with you, OP.  Whether it's my laziness or superficiality or maybe knowing myself and what I want/need/am capable of, I've made the same decision.  I'm an amazing aunt too![/quote]

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