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Getting to know you - do you have kids, etc.
#21
RE: Getting to know you - do you have kids, etc.
We're a blended family, I have one son 19 years old currently on hiatus from college. My wife has two sons, one 30ish who - to be charitable - dances to the beat of his own drum, and another 22 years old who lives with us and is gainfully employed.
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#22
RE: Getting to know you - do you have kids, etc.
No kids, never wanted any.
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#23
RE: Getting to know you - do you have kids, etc.
Three teenage girls, two little guys, just the four youngest here with us. Two sets of irish twins, the sets being two years apart. Can't keep my hands off her...and she's a massive perv. She'll deny this, but it's true. She'd always wanted a big family, I came from a big family, we'd have had more..but the first and last were rough.

The oldest boy..lol...he's not fit for civilized company. Kids a damned wrecking ball...inside and out.
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#24
RE: Getting to know you - do you have kids, etc.
My mother maintains that, if you haven't had kids, you don't know what living is really all about. Paradoxically enough, my (late) father maintained, since my sister and I were in our late teens, that there comes a time in one's life when your children are no longer the most important things in the world. He followed that up, true to his word, by excommunicating first my sister and then me because we were "stressful," allegedly.

Perhaps my own attitude towards having kids is a reflection of my parents' differing opinions on the issue. I'm on the fence, if it happens, great, if not, also great. The other half has two daughters at university in her native Kenya and isn't exactly chomping at the bit for more it seems....I'll see how that cookie crumbles, never say never and all that.

I have a nephew who I'm very fond of and do more than an uncle's usual role I think due to his bio father being an unspeakable savage c*** - he's not on the scene, basically. His favourite toys? Nerf guns, with Star Wars Lego a close second. Pow pow pow pow pow!
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#25
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We opted for a puppy. I used to be interested in becoming a father but frankly I'm too old now (coming up on 60) for it to be fair to the child, and I wouldn't risk my partner's fragile health with a pregnancy anyway. I'm kind of glad I didn't have any children in any of my previous relationships, this is the first one that's lasted more than a year or so.
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#26
RE: Getting to know you - do you have kids, etc.
(September 20, 2021 at 9:48 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Three teenage girls, two little guys, just the four youngest here with us.  Two sets of irish twins, the sets being two years apart.  Can't keep my hands off her...and she's a massive perv.  She'll deny this, but it's true.  She'd always wanted a big family, I came from a big family, we'd have had more..but the first and last were rough.  

The oldest boy..lol...he's not fit for civilized company.  Kids a damned wrecking ball...inside and out.

My oldest is finding out just how much 'fun' having a teenaged girl in the house can be...I remind her to be thankful there isn't another one coming along behind the one she has.

Two teenage girls was enough of a challenge for me...luckily they were far apart enough in age (four years) that we didn't have to do the hormome shuffle at the same time...at least not too much.

Funny about your oldest boy, a wild child it is then?
  
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#27
RE: Getting to know you - do you have kids, etc.
(September 20, 2021 at 9:48 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: The oldest boy..lol...he's not fit for civilized company.  Kids a damned wrecking ball...inside and out.

My "brother in law's" eldest went through a phase of vandalising his room with weapons: swords, axes...he moved through that phase and is now "well balanced," I'm told.
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#28
RE: Getting to know you - do you have kids, etc.
We have 2 wonderful kids. I have a young man that's 18 and a girl that's 16. We wanted one each and wanted them close but not too close and 2-3 years seemed good timing. Been tied ever since and no more wanted, 2 is enough. If the wife can't deal with the empty nest, then we'll adopt.
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#29
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Tried getting a vasectomy at 19 in the service. Got sent to a shrink. Fucking assholes just don' t understand "I don' t want kids".

40+ years later - still don' t want kids. Nor does the SO. 

Neither of us ever did.

You gotta be a psycho to think kids are manditory.
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#30
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I like this thread - self disclosure is the number one key to friendship, and all that.



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