From a pretty early age I decided I didn’t want to get married or have kids cuz both my parents seemed utterly miserable. For a long time I found it weird anyone wanted to do it at all, why would you want to be trapped with someone you hate who you get into screaming arguments all the time?
And it’s not just me, you see a lot of jokes online about people like playing that one scene from Marriage Story while playing old N64 games for nostalgia.
I think the experience of seeing our own parents be so miserable maybe soured a lot of us on starting families.
I don’t have kids because I am a goddamn mess and I don’t have enough mental fortitude to subject myself to the terrors of parentage
Which is a shame, because I love kids, kids are great
Until you have to worry about them getting hurt, or sick or in trouble or killed and my life is scary enough as it is
I feel this. I love kids but whenever people ask why I don’t have them I just tell them because alcoholism and I can barely keep myself alive.