[mom4melody]

This is real.

I have 4 children and I’ve been married 37 years.

I’m no snowflake.

But if I had a do over...I’d stay single and childless.

[Mears]

“But if I had a do over...I’d stay single and childless.”

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I’m sorry to hear that——life does throw us some curveballs sometimes.

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[Ezekiel]

A few of the regrets at the link look more like Planned Parenthood propaganda, but some are not very PC at all, like the woman who regrets being a single mother because her son lacks the father he needs.

Be it about children or relationships or careers or whatever, life is the sum total of every thought, word, experience, and decision acted out in a world with an unknown tomorrow.

Some people were better guessers than I, or were more optimistic, or simply had an actual sense of direction in looking down the road, or merely understood that there was a road.

At least I understand that God has a rectification process, so things can turn about in the weirdest ways. Ironically, there's always tomorrow..

[A_perfect_lady]

My grandmother was married 57 years and had 6 kids. I asked her near the end of her life if she’d do it all over again. She snorted and said, “No! I wouldn’t get married. I’d join the Army!”

[alexander_busek]

But if I had a do over...I’d stay single and childless.

And yet your screen name is "mom4melody?"

Does not compute.

Regards,

[Chickensoup]

This is real.

I have 4 children and I’ve been married 37 years.

I’m no snowflake.

But if I had a do over...I’d stay single and childless

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I am glad I met my kids, I enjoyed their childhoods, but their teenaged years didn’t make it worth it.

[Chickensoup]

Dear Abby asked this of Americans back in the 70’s and the answers were overwhelmingly against doing it again.

[wally_bert]

I have too many inheritable problems that made daily living at times absolutely miserable.

Passing on even a couple of those traits would be a capital case of child abuse to me.

For a long time I could barely support myself and couldn’t imagine subjecting a kid and wife to suffering with me.

Good thing my wife doesn’t want a child either. She sponsors at least one child overseas and there are the two nieces and a nephew that seem OK.

My sister dodged the inherited bullets I caught.

My parents used to guilt me a little over no children but quit.

[Trump-a-licious]

WTF?

[stellaluna]

Unless they are all failures you will be glad you had them when it’s time to be sent to the nursing home. Childless people get the worst treatment because the lazy nurses know they can get away with it.