never have kids

I prefer being an Aunt than being someone’s mom. I also like other family member’s kids too: telling them jokes I knew as a kid, playing with them, answering their billions of questions they bombard me with and just enjoying their company, when they’re not pulling my hair or playing with my stuff. I’m too old to breed, so I’ll chalk this one up as “done”.

It’s been 40 years and no close calls, no relationships with anyone with kids. Hanging with friends who have kids is a power struggle. I’m seen as a child-hater simply because I don’t have any, and kids look at me like a freak. I’m like an abstract clown or something. I like them more then they like me. The real reason is that I don’t see myself having a mate in this lifetime, and I don’t want to raise a kid alone. I’ve known women who’ve been abandoned by their mates and I don’t want to go through that betrayal. It’s hard work, and you can’t have a kid just for the sake of it. You have to be more serious about raising another human being, a decent ethical one, and there are too many people who do unscrupulous things to one another, and I’d hate to breed one like that. I could go on.