All of this rings so true. Parenting in public sucks. It’s so hard. Thank you for naming something that I didn’t quite know how to articulate! I tell friends who are on the fence about becoming parents that if the decision to have a child was a logical one, no one would choose to have one. It doesn’t make logical sense! They’re expensive, time consuming, demanding of all your energy, the list goes on. So it really comes down to something much more than that, which is different for every person.
All of this rings so true. Parenting in public sucks. It’s so hard. Thank you for naming something that I didn’t quite know how to articulate! I tell friends who are on the fence about becoming parents that if the decision to have a child was a logical one, no one would choose to have one. It doesn’t make logical sense! They’re expensive, time consuming, demanding of all your energy, the list goes on. So it really comes down to something much more than that, which is different for every person.
Yes!!! Totally agree, I realized it wasn’t logical when I was choosing, but I still wanted one anyway and that was the reason that won out!