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My husband and I are one night away from wrapping up an amazing week in beautiful Iceland, and I have to say...this trip has sealed the deal for me on being CF.
I guess Iāve considered myself a fence sitter for the last 2-3 years, slowly inching toward the idea of choosing to be without kids, but still catching myself saying things like, āif we have kids...ā
We planned and booked this trip just 10 days before we left. Husband had time off work and we were dying in the boring Midwest, so we just went for it. And itās been a fucking incredible, mind-blowing, eye-opening time.
I am ready to say with absolute certainty: I donāt want to give up this freedom and these experiences. Not āsome dayā. Not in a few more years. Not ever! Iām about to be 32 years old. If I found out tomorrow that I was pregnant, I would literally and truly feel like my life was over. It would be death to my life as I know it, and that is not the mentality of someone who even maybe wants kids. So yeah, Iām done fence sitting.
Team child free!
Itās so obnoxious to me that parents always act like people without spawn donāt know TRUE happiness. Like we are all experiencing some watered down version of joy in life just because we havenāt procreated. So eye roll inducing.
Right?! Where Iām from people get married really young and start having children soon after. Like, itās not uncommon for folks to have 2 kids by 25 years old. So, of course those people are going to feel like having children āgives sooo much meaning/purposeā to life. They had kids before their life even got started! They truly donāt know any better.
WE DID! Once we get home (leave tomorrow) I will post photos. Literally every day and night has been pure magic.
Exactly! Iām not anti-child either! It makes me sad how often CF gets lumped in with hating kids. I mean, some CF people do despise children and thatās totally okay too. But I have two nieces that I adore. If you have a newborn you want out of your arms for a while, Iām totally your girl! Crawling around on my hands and knees playing with my best friendā kid? Hell yeah!
But like you said...at the end of the day, they go home with their parents and I go home to...well, no kids. I canāt imagine anything better, honestly. :)
We got in at 6 AM on the 16th- just missed the storm! The only travel snafu weāve had all week was yesterday. We were staying near Hƶfn and planned to start our way back toward Reykjavik, but they closed the road due to high winds. I guess just before they closed it some tourists drove through while gold ball sized rocks were flying off the mountains; they made it out with only two windows left. Yikes!
LOL thatās so funny! Iām an American and was confused why others were saying it was a grocery store. I thought it must be some place up north? Ha!
Itās the amazing glacier water, lol.
You guys are amazing- we just sold our home so we can go to all of those places too! Whatās that quote? āI havenāt been everywhere, but itās on my list.ā ;)
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So right! Exactly why Iāve started bringing up sterilization to my husband. Either for him or myself.