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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NO!  I bought into the whining and the complaining.  This is what people like to do.  Few people talk about when something is wonderful or fantastic.  It's easier to complain in general than to put into words how life-changingly spectacular having a kid is.  Now I wish I had't listened to the complainers as I'm having trouble getting pregnant a second time. My kid rocks![/quote]

I think PP is right.  I have friends with kids and friends without kids.  I've been on the fence.  My friends with kids don't go around and boast about how great their lives are, but they actually seem truly content and able to weather issues in life.

My friends without kids talk incessantly about how great their lives are -- travel and eating out and disposable income -- until something happens, like a big unavoidable expense or a health issue or a job issue, and then they seem way more lost.  Then it becomes clear that their contentment is pretty surface level, so long as nothing unexpected happens and they have money and time to constantly do fun things, all is great.  But life isn't like that.  Neither is aging.

My friends with kids tend to have a larger perspective, and their happiness seems to be built on a more solid foundation.

Of course, these are generalizations.   I have a few friends who wanted kids but couldn't have them.  And they actually tend not to fall into the generalization above.  [/quote]

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