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Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Storing Butter at Room Temp

Cold butter can be a total pain to spread, but we keep it that way because we think it’s the safest way to do it, even if it tears our toast, and soul, apart. If only we could have perfectly soft, spreadable butter all the time…

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The thing is, if you’ve been keeping butter in the fridge because you’ve been told storing it room temperature is akin to creating a bacteria frappe, you’ve been living a lie!

Peter Cassell of the FDA told Takeout it’s totally fine to store butter at 68°F for up to TEN DAYS!!

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With that goes the disclaimer that the kind of butter you have makes a difference concerning contamination worries, i.e. if it’s salted, made with pasteurized cream, that kind of stuff.

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The takeaway is that as long as you’re working with quality butter, ten days is no problem (keep it covered though). You can even go 20 days, if you keep it at 50°F as a compromise.

Quality butter is so awesome – you can even freeze it for two years, and it will still be good!

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It all comes down to using some common sense. If it smells rancid, it probably is. When dust is gathering on it, it needs to go. If flies are using your butter as a flop pad, say goodbye to it. However, if it looks and smells good, it’s most likely good to go and ready to enjoy.

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Get ready for some perfectly buttered toast!

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Now Millennials Have Ruined Divorce, Too

People like to blame millennials for ruining everything. So…what have they ruined now? According to a recent study by Philip N. Cohen from the University of Maryland, they have ruined divorce.

Americans younger than 45 (an age group that technically includes the youngest Gen Xers) are taking a different approach to marriage. Rather than marrying young and divorcing like their parents, they are waiting to get married until they are older. This gives them an opportunity to get their careers and finances on track before tying the knot and starting a family.

With these changes, the divorce rate dropped by 18 percent from 2008 to 2016.

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Bloomberg presents a few possible theories as to why the divorce rate is falling. One possibility is that it’s actually due to our aging population. Older people are less likely to divorce. According to Cohen’s data, though, this isn’t the case. Even when he controlled for age, the divorce rate still showed an 8 percent drop.

Another theory is that the divorce rate is lower because fewer people are getting married. Although that’s true, Cohen compiled his numbers by looking at the number of divorces compared to the number of married women. Even looking at the divorce rate in this proportional way, the divorce rate still shows a decline.

Cohen’s data also shows that the decline in divorce is largely due to younger people. The Boomers have continued to have a high rate of divorce, even as they age. This trend has even spawned a new term: gray divorce.

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Overall, fewer people are choosing to marry. Those that do marry are statistically more likely to stay married. So millennials haven’t ruined divorce; they’re just less likely to need it because they are waiting to marry until they are financially and professionally secure.

But let’s go ahead and blame ’em anyway.

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You Have to Read These 6 Facts to Believe Them

Ever heard of the Love Commandos?

Well, you’re about to learn about them and a whole bunch of other fascinating things in this great fact set.

1. What are the chances?

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2. A great organization

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Check them out HERE.

3. Wish this was a thing in the U.S.

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4. Lost to time

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5. Time to go to Tulsa

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6. Vigilantes of love

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Those are 6 great facts! Don’t you agree?!?

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People with Multiple Personality Disorder Tell What Their Lives Are Like Day-to-Day

While most of us have probably heard of dissociative personality disorder, also known as multiple personality disorder, many people still don’t know very much about it.

In this AskReddit article, people who live every day with dissociative personality disorder open up and reveal what it’s really like to live day-to-day with multiple personalities.

1. Not like TV

“I was diagnosed with DID a few years ago. I live in England.

For many, including myself, there are no alters, its not like on TV. All the “me’s” are me.

Imagine there is a me who hates bananas and a me who loves them. When my mind responds to stress, it might be banana lover me who is in control. ‘Control’ means heavy influence, not complete, cast iron domination. But the banana hating me is fucking miserable with the banana spree, so she screams in my ear so loudly, so incessantly, that I both love bananas, hate bananas and am just so fucking confused.

I do have episode of lost memory, and complete dissociation, but those episodes are rare. Perhaps two in a bad year. I might come to myself and realise I have bought £800 worth of bananas. I might find a bunch I don’t recall buying.

I have spent a loooot of time in the nuthouse. A lot. I have never met a fellow DID with alters. I have met many people with severe BPD who dozens of them.

I am NOT gatekeeping DID. I live in England, and am diagnosed privately & under the NHS. I don’t know the US criteria, nor the prevailing attitudes the psychs there have I strive to support every brother & sister of mine fighting their own mind. But, whereas I will tell anyone I meet about the rest of my mental health landscape, I tend to keep the DID diagnosis to myself because it is so deeply misunderstood. I have met others with this diagnosis who have the same problem.

If you have ever seen Deep Space 9, Jadzia Dax has very, very similar experienced to DID, but handles it beautifully. The episodes where she is replaced by Ezri show the bad side of it.

I am happy to answer questions, with love, but, DID is a bit different in life than it is on Tumblr.”

2. Formed out of trauma

“I’m one of those alters, made an account just for this. From the outside we don’t seem too different from anyone else. (Maybe a little eccentric, but that’s not really related to DID.) Basically we all work together to take care of the body and support the host. They also take care of us to a certain degree.

We were formed because of trauma.

When there’s situations that the host can’t handle, one of us steps in. Sometimes we use the body completely but more often we sort of drape a ‘film’ over the every day world, if that makes sense. Everything is experienced at a slight difference. It’s like wearing tinted glasses, the world is still the world but it’s coloured differently.

Anyway I’m the only one who’s ‘fronted’ as myself. I used to have my own friends separate from the host’s but we drifted away which kind of sucks. NGL it can get a little lonely, but it is what it is. Sometimes the host and I integrate to a certain extent. It’s disorienting to both of us. Not necessarily a bad thing though. I feel like we’re more balanced when we’re together but it’s also weird because then its more his life than mine, you know? If we could be reincarnated I’d want to be my own person. I think I’d form a rock band.

The host tends to be a little … lets people get away with a lot of stuff I guess. Lets people be mean or abusive towards him. I don’t. If I can get control I’m more likely to tell people to fuck off or just walk away from the situation. I can also handle anger a lot better than him — when he gets upset he self-injures, when I get upset I just sit with it and wait for it to go away.

We have different preferences for music and different writing style. I feel like I’m a little more motivated too. I’m more willing to sit and work away at something but the host’s like, something has to happen right away!

Other than me, there’s:

Isiah — chill guy, likes people and customer service so yeah he comes out sometimes when we have to get through long work days. Likes ice cream so sometimes after a bad day we walk to get some

Ichi — Isiah’s friend, kinda gloomy but a good guy.

?? — someone else, doesn’t come out much but it’s cool when she does. I think she’s younger than the rest of us, doesn’t talk much. When she’s out we sometimes look like a typical “crazy” person, like walking in circles and humming to ourselves and someone’s gotta watch the body to make sure we don’t wander off the subway tracks or something.

Recently, we’ve all been a little more integrated with one another. Not sure why. We tend to split more when there’s more stress.”

3. Like a teenage boy

“My friend’s dad has DID due to a history of child abuse, which was then heavily triggered, because he worked in journalism, often on child abuse stories, which just wore him down after a while. The person at the top of the thread that said, it’s all “me” and not like characters on a TV show is totally right. I love United States of Tara but it is nothing like that.

He is probably in his early 60’s, and I have only seen one alter personally. I didn’t even realize it was an alter. Apparently, when he gets stressed, he gets a little like a teenage boy super obsessed with comics, Star Wars, all that stuff. I found this out because we have a very long and in-depth conversation on Godzilla. I guess that is just a happy place for him, so that’s what happened.

Secondhand, I have heard from my friend that he does have an alter that basically does not want to be a husband or father. He joins dating sites, has lashed out violently at his adult children, and has no recollection of any of this. He genuinely is the sweetest person, so it was shocking for me to hear this, because my friend’s family is super close. It has just been something they learn to deal with, and from my understanding, this angry personality is not a common thing. He is much more likely to slip into teenage boy obsessing over nerd culture state.”

4. Lost time

“My alters are me. They don’t have names and they don’t “come out” very often. For example, only one has been “out” so far in 2018.

Between mid-February and late May I lost a lot of time. I can’t remember attending my sisters birthday, even though there are photos of me with her from that night. I can’t remember spending almost £400 on camping equipment on ebay (I don’t even like camping), and I can’t remember sending an e-mail to my University department head telling him I was dropping out. I’m a heavy smoker, but I would randomly find my cigarettes in the bin. I’m a nail biter, but I would suddenly realize that my nails were clipped and filed down. It’s just silly things like that. I hear them in my head, and I talk to them more often than they “come out”. Mostly, they comfort me when I’m in a bad place, but sometimes they’re very harsh with me. Cruel, occasionally. (edit: I’m aware I’m talking to myself when this happens, but lots of mes in different moods)

I don’t have a lot of friends and I’m not close to my parents, but my sister, brother-in-law and best friend of 20 years have met at least one of my alters. The general impression I got from them was that the change isn’t dramatic like you see on TV. For example, whichever alter my friend met maintains eye contact when speaking, which I can’t do. They also don’t swear, whereas I have a really bad habit of swearing in every second sentence. The most intimidating thing my friend told me was that the alter “looked different” somehow, like they wore facial expressions that she had never seen me display in the 20 years we’ve known one another. But no, they didn’t rush off to change clothes, they didn’t talk in a different accent and they didn’t do anything bad.

I resent saying this, but my experience of DID is very “boring” compared to most fictional portrayals. And I resent saying that because on bad days, I’m so miserable that I want to kill myself. Losing time, even if it doesn’t happen often, terrifies me and I spend a lot of time just waiting for it to happen again. Sometimes I just feel so empty inside that I just spend weeks lying in bed, thinking and feeling nothing. Sometimes I have no idea who I am, and I don’t actually think I’m real. But other times I’m alright, and I just get on with things. Therapy has really helped me.”

5. Detached

“Hi. I’m in the US, diagnosed and in treatment. Almost 40, female.

All of the dissociative parts of my personality are aware that we are one person. We perceive reality very differently, and feel differently about it, but accept that we’re parts of the whole. We know our legal name, the body age, etc. We feel detached from it in a variety of different ways, but we know it’s reality.

My everyday life consists of each of my parts trying to do the best they can, just like anybody else. We get up, we keep our body clean and healthy, we socialize and work, we have passions and interests, etc. We have to spend a lot of time working on inner alignment and resolving inner conflict and we spend a lot of time in therapy, reading, writing, self-analyzing, and other types of “doing the work”.

The biggest challenges we face are related to our trauma, and the other disorders it spawned. General anxiety and panic attacks, intense phobias, nightmares, flashbacks, etc. Relationships are really tough too.

I’ve also organized the sh*t out of our life. I’m a professional project manager and use the things I’ve learned on myself, regularly, to try and help us function as a team. Like I keep a lot of lists so that whoever comes out has a battle plan and knows what’s been done already.”

6. 8 different personalities

“I have 8 alters and then myself. Most of them are quiet and not around much (a couple not at all). The most prevalent are a 4 yo girl, a woman in her early 20’s and myself. It is very rare that I lose any time and I am most likely what would be called a gate keeper or main “personality.” I believe that the 4 yo is the original though.

My issues stem from childhood loss, one alter is a result of molestation and the teen alter is around because the 8 yo alter that was molested hid away. The young woman is the nurturer and caregiver of the home and children (she was a single mother of my oldest daughter). She married a man who was violent and tried to destroy who she was as a person mentally and nearly killed her so I took over. I carry all the memories of the violence in the marriage. Then there is another alter who is the protector but she isn’t around anymore because we don’t need her. There are others but their parts to play are minimal and rare.

I am in a position in my life right now where I don’t need them anymore. Some I am unsure if they even exist anymore or if they are just quiet. I don’t know where they are to be honest. The 4 yo comes and goes and shes a delight. I would love to merge the young woman and myself because I think our qualities compliment one another and would make me a more well rounded woman.”

7. “A whole bunch of us”

“I have DID and there are a whole bunch of us, but probably about four, including me, who handle most situations on the “outside.” The rest either mainly handle situations on the inside, they have more specialized skills, or they would just really rather stay inside. Honestly I couldn’t get through life without their help. We survived our childhood as a team and, while some people get us into some weird situations, we’re all just trying to heal. I know I couldn’t have survived what we went through alone.

I know for me, the other alters aren’t really my “problem.” My poor mental health is because of the flashbacks and other symptoms of trauma, and the other alters and I have to handle these effects together. If I had a magic wand, I personally wouldn’t want to heal the DID, despite the grief certain alters have given me, but I’d definitely want to heal our PTSD and other mental health issues.

I’m not going to use our real names on here on the incredibly off chance that someone recognizes us, but here’s a rundown of the main four fronters:
Alter #1 (me): Host. I do school, work, and family stuff. I don’t really know how to describe myself but I usually do well in school, though I’ve been struggling lately. I’m pretty patient and I’m a good listener, which helps with friendships. I’m nerdy so I like to stay in and do stuff in small groups or with one other person.

Alter #2: Protector. She’s very stoic, reserved, and formal. She is a lot faster, stronger, and wittier than I am. She comes out when we feel physically and sometimes emotionally threatened. She handled a lot of physical abuse and mental games. She enjoys hiking, sports, and leather jackets and is actually a lot like Rosa from Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Alter #3: Internal Self-Helper. She’s very submissive and shy, but she’s coming out of her shell. She soothes alters on the inside if they’re upset and she helps us regulate flashbacks or other intense emotion. She handled a lot of the emotional manipulation (ex. women’s roles, “I love you… just kidding,” “God wants you to do X,” etc.) and sexual abuse from our primary abuser. She likes knitting, cooking, cat videos, that kind of thing but she absolutely HATES germs.

Alter #4: Protector. She’s very outspoken and flirty. She used to drink, party, get us into trouble, etc. but she’s incredibly helpful and friendly now, and will sometimes take over for me if I need a break with school. We were forced to provide “adult entertainment” in our childhood as part of our cycle of abuse. She’s the one who experienced most of that. She’s interested in fashion, being outdoors, and board games with friends.”

8. I was never one person…

“So when most people think of DID, they think that there is one original identity that splits into parts due to trauma, but that’s not actually how it works.

DID is caused by trauma during very early childhood, during the time when children are actually going through a stage of development when something called “identity integration” is naturally happening. During this stage of development, children naturally develop one cohesive sense of self, where they can naturally shift from one identity state to another seamlessly, and with a flowing, natural autobiographical memory. For example, they might behave differently at school than they do at home, or with their friends, or with their grandmother, but they are still the same child in all those situations, and they maintain their sense of self and their memories during all those situations.

A child exposed to severe trauma and repeated dissociation does not experience identity integration. Their identity forms in pieces. I was never one person. I have always been many pieces.”

9. The demon

“I suffer from BPD. Borderline personality disorder. But, the idea of me having DID has been tossed around.

Mostly, I do things and then later can’t believe I have done them. I will have faint memories but they feel more like dreams. I will say things to others and barely remember even talking with them at all. It is like someone else had control of me during that episode. I don’t hear voices (at least I don’t think I do. I have intuition, of course but, I don’t have more than that one voice helping me make decisions each day)

With my meds, I am pretty good. Keeps episodes down to a very minimum (once a year or less). But, I have to rotate between a few different concoctions due to tolerances.

Prior to my wife convincing me to get help, I would have moments of full black out anger. Thankfully, I only ever directed this at myself and inanimate objects. (I would hit myself and break things). And, strangely, my wife could eventually pull me out of it and I would come back not really realizing what I had done or said. (She actually can’t watch the scene where Black Widow calms down the Hulk. She said it just brings up too many traumatic memories)

I also have a mountain of other diagnosed issues. MDD. Bi-Polar. ADHD. I stutter badly…. Pretty much, my brain chemistry is fucked.

When I am the regular me, I am nice and kind and fun to be around. But, when the demon comes, it isn’t good. I thank my wife daily for dealing with me for so long. She just says I am lucky I am cute otherwise she would have kicked me to the curb. She’s a strong woman and a wonderful mother. She took care of 2 kids and me.

Mental Illness is no joke. I sure wish it would stop getting treated like it is.”

10. Protecting and surviving

“Well we are a system for someone who has DID. The central person is purely internal, they never face outwardly. Facing is up to the rest of us. There are 4 main people, 2 secondary (think highly specialized) and then the “core” which is actually 2 people. So 8 on total.

Right now we’re working on integration. The workhorse of our group is finally feeling emotion and it’s been really overwhelming and painful. Imagine having absolutely no emotional experiences for 30 years and then one day you feel a twinge of frustrating and the next day you’re so full of rage you want to break anything you can get your hands on…. It’s been hard, but we have good support. We support each other, and we have really amazing people in of life, and an especially good therapist.

I don’t think most people would ever be able to tell we’re a system identity. The whole point of DID is protecting and surviving, and being at all off inhibits that. So we have struggles, but most people are none the wiser that they are talking to a completely different identity; they just chalk it up to me being a little forgetful now and then.”

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15 of the Most Random Ways People Have Met Someone They Ended up Dating

You never know when you’ll meet that special person, so keep your eyes peeled at all times!

And let these tales of random meetings from AskReddit users keep you hopeful.

1. Choices

“Had a choice of a baseball game or party. Wanted to go to the game but made a promise to go to the party. Wasn’t in the best of moods.

Go to get a beer and a girl comes up to the keg, I hold out the tap to fill her cup and she says in a non-talkative way, thanks.

I say, you seem to want to be here as much as I do. She apologized and we mentioned why we were there and why we didn’t want to be. Ended up talking the whole time and got together with her friends later that evening.

Spent everyday together after that. Dated, moved in together, got married and had a son.

10 years to the day we met she filed for divorce.

Should have gone to the damn baseball game.”

2. That’s one way to do it

“In high school I had a summer job insulating houses. One day I was helping spray insulation in a homeowners attic and fell through the ceiling into the homeowner’s daughter’s room.

Between busting my butt and getting berated by my boss, I was really embarrassed. The daughter noticed I was pretty down on myself and went out of her way to be nice to me.

Long story short, we ended up dating for about a year before heading off to college.”

3. Wrong number

“Wrong phone number. A girl apparently gave him a fake number at a bar the night before, and that turned out to be my number. We only dated for a few months, but it’s a funny story either way.”

4. Happy ending

“My uncle married a wrong phone number. He called, it was the wrong number (it was the salon she worked at) and they chatted for a few minutes. He enjoyed their conversation so much that he decided to stop by the salon and say hi in person and they chatted some more. He asked her on a date, she said yes, and now they’re married.”

5. Future wife

“I met my wife before a college English class. It was an 8 A.M. class and the teacher was super late, so we were all waiting outside the door. I was absentmindedly humming along to “The Ocean” by Led Zeppelin when she turns around to me and says, “Hey, is that Led Zeppelin?”

I said, “Yeah!”

She said, “Oh cool. Well, you gotta shut up. I’m hungover as hell.” And then she turned back around.”

6. Happy accident

“I used to tell people that she hit me with her car.

Which was true. Technically.

I was stopped at a traffic light on my motorbike and she was stopped behind me. Her car rolled forward, bumped my bike, which jolted it forward. This caught me by surprise and the entire thing ended with my bike falling over. No big deal.

She was extremely apologetic, and worried that I might take legal action or that she had damaged my bike in some way. So she offered to buy me a coffee in apology and it went from there.

edit: I was wearing a full-face helmet, so I doubt it was planned. And it only lasted six months back in ~2009.”

7. Classy

“In high school my now husband was stabbing plastic utensils into an apple, I told him it looked nice and he told me to f*ck off.

Edit: Wow this got popular! I’m glad that my awkward relationship story could make some people laugh, it’s a cherished memory that I don’t think I’ll ever forget and it makes a hell of a great conversation starter for “how did you two meet?”

8. To the rescue

“My current partner chopped her finger off at work and I took her to hospital and hung out for eight hours while they reattached her finger then took her home to make sure she was okay. We’ve been together two years now and she has no visible scarring from the surgery. We just kinda clicked.”

9. Nice beginning, bad ending

“I found a desert tortoise wandering down the sidewalk. So I went door to door trying to find its owner. Cute guy answers door, gets me a box, we find the owner together. We got married a year later.

Buuuuut then while paying for his Ph.D. in ethics, he’s busy hammering hookers while I traveled for work… to pay for his Ph.D. One divorce and 10 years later I’m still stuck with his student loans on my credit report and HPV to boot. NEXT TIME JUST KEEP THE DAMN TORTOISE.”

10. Dueling parties

“I met my wife at an ad hoc party thrown by two roommates who hadn’t told the other that their friends were coming over. So both groups of about 5 people showed up just expecting to hang out, and it turned into 10 people jammed into a small apartment laughing and drinking.”

11. Kind of awkward, but okay

“I went in for a colon cleanse on a dare with a friend, and it ended up in a date with the girl inserting the water tube and performing the flushing.”

12. “Are you real?”

“4 years ago, my friend introduced me to a game app, the kind you play with your Facebook friends. After a while, she lost interest in it, so I decided to play with a “random opponent”. I got matched to some guy from Europe and we played the game for a week before he messaged me on the chat function “Hey, are you real?” because he wasn’t sure if he was playing with a bot. We hit it off and he ended up moving to my country to be with me ? “

13. Billing = Love connection

“I had a full-time job at a biotech company, but also a part-time job at a magazine. The magazine didn’t do direct deposit so I had them send my checks to the biotech company. One month I didn’t get my magazine check, and the head of billing at the biotech emails me and asks me to come to her office.

The biotech was somehow able to deposit my magazine money that month into their own account, and the head of billing asked me why I was receiving money from some magazine, what I did for them, what the magazine was. All this with the door to her office open.

After some back and forth she says she’ll cut me a check which requires a lot of paperwork on her part, and as I’m walking back to my desk downstairs, I make eye contact with a girl in the billing department.

An hour or so later the girl sends me an email because she overheard our conversation and is familiar with the magazine I worked for. We dated for a little over three years.”

14. Coffee shops are always good for this

“I was at a coffeeshop with a girl I was absolutely nuts about but only dating casually. During our conversation she cuts me off and hisses about a girl across the room I’d never seen before who was having an argument with her boyfriend.

“That’s the bitch who stole my boyfriend!” girl-I-was-nuts-about said. Same guy arguing with girl-I’d-never-seen-before. Girl-I’d-never-seen-before stands up, says “I’m done”, and storms off–not angrily, but calmly and confidently. Supremely poised, like she was storming out of a Henry James novel. I remember briefly thinking as she walked out the door, “that is the most regal creature I have ever seen in my life.”

Girl-I-was-nuts-about huffs in pleasure about their fight. I murmur some kind of agreement in the interest of solidarity. We have a pleasant coffee date and don’t go home together.

Three years later, I start managing that same coffeeshop. On my first day, girl-I’d-never-seen-before is formally introduced to me by mutual friends. It dawns on me after a moment that this was the girl from that night. This was the entire conversation:

ME: Hello. HER: Hey.

A year later, as she became a regular at the shop, we became actual friends and started hanging out. A year after that, we started dating. That was 20 years ago. She’s snoring quietly beside me as I type this.”

15. Thank you, volcano!

“It was April 2010, I was travelling in Barcelona for work when the Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted and grounded all aircraft flying to Europe. I was trapped. I did the sensible thing and went to the pub where I met 2 drunk Irish guys. Proceeded to get reasonably hammered until a girl walked in and sat beside me. She was stranded as well so we proceeded to get drunker together. Decided I should kiss her, I did, and now she is my wife. All thanks to Eyjafjallajökull.”

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15 People Tell the Most Evil Things They’ve Witnessed Children Do

Are people born bad or does their environment make them that way?

These stories form AskReddit users about some really bad kids make me believe that the former is true. What do you think?

1. Evil

“I saw my 5 y/o neighbour kill a puppy for fun and then he tried to blame it on my brother.

Luckily I witnessed the situation and cleared things up.”

2. Thief and a liar

“My cousin stole my mom’s necklace she got from her grandmother and tried to sell it to the same pawnshop my mom worked at.

When she was caught, she tried to pin the blame on me and after she has had her sights on me.

Best revenge I had was when we met again and she tried to fight me and I just carried her and locked her in the bathroom for 6 hours.”

3. Disturbed

“I work with emotionally disturbed kids. So you know… I see a lot of kids doing evil sh-t.

My worst one was when a kid grabbed a 3/4 full carton of milk at lunch and pissed in it to fill it up. He then, calm as anything, yelled for the principal to come out. As soon as he walked out of his office door the kid threw the milk/piss all over him. The principal was wearing a down jacket

It was my first week working in this sort of environment, so I hadn’t reached the point where I’d normalised it, and was so beyond horrified. Honestly, the calm, creepy manner he did it, and the joy he got, makes this situation stick out more than the kid who cut up a rat, or the kid who set a frog on fire.”

4. Creepy

“Interviewed an elementary student about what he wanted to be when he grows up. He said serial killer. Alarming, but I just responded that wouldn’t work out very well. “What about a job?” So he says he wants to be a police officer. And it’s an interview so I ask him why? Does he want to keep people safe? He told me he wants to use a gun. That’s all… I hope he doesn’t make it.”

5. Poor kitty

“My 7 year old cousin shoved her cat into a duffel bag and zipped it shut, kept it in there. Needless to say, my family found a better home for the cat.”

6. In denial

“My neighbors daughter (4? Maybe 5) stomped on her rabbit in the garden while chanting “This is for your own good” with each stomp.

I told my neighbor what I saw but “MY daughter would NEVER do that” and now we don’t even say good morning.”

7. Ouch!

“When I was in preschool, some kid (a little mental) snuck up behind me with safety scissors and snipped a hole in my cheek. That is the only clear memory I have of preschool — I was bleeding like crazy.”

8. The bad seed

“My younger brother is a psychopath. We are 13 years apart. When I was very pregnant with my second child he tried to drop kick me in the stomach and said he wanted to kill my baby. He was mad because I wouldn’t let him play a video game. Another time when he was around 6 or 7 he took a baseball bat and jumped on the neighbor’s car hood and started bashing it on the hood and roof making dents. The neighbor cane out horrified and when he yelled at my brother my mom came out and threatened to whoop the neighbor’s a–. My mom is part of the reason my brother is such a sh-t. He’s 17 now, and I’m sure he will end up in prison some day.”

9. Brutal

“I was the child. The day after my dad had his vasectomy, I kicked him in the crotch.

(I was only 4, but still!)”

10. Animal abuse

“I was once hosting a gazebo at a wildlife event. I was an intern for a conservation charity in the UK. A group of children came up to me and I showed them the froglets that were making their way back to a pond nearby. For some reason, these little demons started grabbing baby frogs and ripping their legs off. I was so horrified I couldn’t even say anything. I didn’t point out the survivors to any other kids.”

11. Little perv

“I watched a five year old boy cop a feel. The victim didn’t notice, but the kid made eye contact with me immediately before and after, so he knew I saw. I rattled him out to his father, who said, “I’ll teach him to buy them dinner first.” “

12. Psycho

“When I was younger, I had a younger cousin that ties my little sisters’ hair to the bike rim and then F-CKING PEDALS.

I got a metal pipe and full force swing it at his jaw.

I think he’s in prison now, don’t care.”

13. Attacked

“I was a child as well at the time, but in first grade during an after school activity for writing I sat next to a group of girls I’d never interacted with before. Well I remember reading a book and then feeling something splinter off in my arm. It hurt like hell at the time and I looked over and one of the girls had stabbed her pencil into my forearm. There was a bit of blood and some splinters and this girl was just glaring at me as she twisted the pencil in. I was frozen because what the f-ck.

I think she stabbed me in the same place like 3 or 4 more times before a teacher finally saw my upraised hand and came over. Not a f-cking word was said as the teacher removed the pencil and clotted the blood. My parents were never told and this girl wasn’t told anything either. No idea what became of her.”

14. Intimidation

“My niece was trying to pour herself some Sunny D and my sister said not to do that because it’s a new container and too heavy for her.

My niece said she can do it and my sister told her not to do it on the carpet where she was and to move to the kitchen so if she spills, it’s ok.

My niece looked at her and dumped the juice on the carpet.

Power move.”

15. A whole host of issues

“Late to the party and it is a throw away. My son is evil. He is 8 now, has problems disassociating reality with make believe, my ex wife enables him and belives everything he says. Within a week of starting school, he accused a teacher of touching him in his special place after school one day, was disproved once the CCTV in the class room was reviewed.

Regularly punches his younger brother in the face saying “die Joker”

He also told his teacher that I choked him when my ex wife wasn’t there. Social services were called, not allowed to be near my sons. Got kicked out of the home. Wife files for a protection order and because of it I was let go from work ( I require security clearance for my job). The social worker later found out that he was making it up, because my son calls me Homer now.”

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12+ People Reveal The Reason They Had to Break up with Their Best Friends

Breaking up with a best friend can be even tougher than breaking up with a significant other. They may have been in your life for quite some time, but for one reason or another, they’ve got to go.

Take a look at these stories from AskReddit folks who had to do the deed and ditch their besties.

1. Bad move

“We were completely inseparable through middle and high school and had always planned to stay together through college. She didn’t get into my choice schools, so (being an extremely dumb and anxious teenager) I foolishly agreed to attend a second-rate school with her instead… as not to be alone.

Shortly before the start of our freshman year of college she informed me she was no longer going to school with me and was instead moving to NYC to live with a guy she met on the internet. She’d known this for months but neglected to tell me until it was too late to do anything about it.”

2. Sick

“I got ill, regular doctors appointments and didn’t have the energy to do lots of activities. They just stopped talking to me and blanked me when they saw me.

Edit: Wow I didn’t expect so many people to have been in the same boat. I hope those of you who have been abandoned by friends through illness have managed to find better friends and make stronger relationships with others. Unfortunately my situation made me not very trusting and I don’t form any kind of relationship easy.

For those who asked, I did try to reach out to my friends both at that time and also in the future. Unfortunately at the time I was just blanked and ignored, if I saw them in the street or around college they’d just look straight through me. Acquaintances and ‘friends of friends’ also stopped taking to me and I got horrible glares and looks as if I’d been the one to do something. Naturally I was upset and hurt but because I was ill I just didn’t have the patience to care.

It turned out my best friend took a year off to work and then came to my University (so I was starting my second year and she was in her first year). I only found out when she graduated and her parents put her picture in the local newspaper.

A few years later my second best friend got a part time job for the firm I work for, albeit in a different department and office. I reached out and asked if she wanted to meet for a catch up and she was very enthusiastic about it. I said I was free whenever and asked for her availability- no reply. I waited a few days and thought maybe she wants me to make the plans so I suggested a time and place. No response. This was about 5 years ago.

Also to those who asked about what I would have wanted from them, the simple answer would be just to have things carry on as normal. Basic things- reply to texts, tag me in memes, usual sleepovers, study sessions. Only difference would be I couldn’t come to anything when I had doctors/hospital appointments.”

3. Addiction

“I tried to help her with her addiction to drugs and she cut me off. It’s been six years since I talked to her and I just found out she died. I have known her since I was sixteen and I am fifty four now. It was very hard to see how she changed from a sweet girl to a completely different person.”

4. Let me make you an offer

“It was a lot of things individually but on the whole it came down to selfishness. Wall of text incoming.

Moved in with one of my best friends at the time. We’d lived together in college and we were about a year or so out from graduation and had an opportunity for a real cheap apartment. Moved in with her and her boyfriend. Very quickly it became apparent that she was gonna be treating this place as her Barbie dreamhouse, complaining about anything I brought into the space as “going against her vision” and trying to get me to throw in on the expensive furniture she wanted to buy. You could never say anything negative around her or she’d start going on about how much “negative energy” you put out and was always very quick to remind everyone how many hours she worked and how no one worked as hard as her. Constantly complaining about everything, EVERYTHING. Going out of her way to start fights because it was her way or the highway. Just generally unpleasant. Don’t know how the boyfriend put up with it. I tried to just ignore it as best I could and play Good-Time Charlie.

Then she joined the MLM scam.

One of those health and wellness product lines. She was pushing that down EVERYONE’S throats. Hard sell, 24/7. You couldn’t escape it. Forced her boyfriend to sign up. Started taking over the living room as her “work space” i.e. “TV off, radio off, no talking because I have to listen to this conference call of people waxing poetic about the wonders of this scam company for the next two hours.” We’d asked her to do it in her room if she needed space but she said she didn’t want to feel excluded… even though she was excluding herself.

She had started to distance herself from me because I was skeptical about the whole thing. Kept trying to convince me. Started guilting me. Eventually made it clear that the only way to stay friends with her was to join the thing. Stupid me, I joined the thing. It was only to save what little friendship was left, which was stupid in hindsight. I lost a LOT of money.

So we’re nearing the end of the lease, and she’s talking like she wants to renew and all this stuff. Then like 3 weeks before the time comes, she decides she’s like bored with her boyfriend or something, and she just f*cks off. Like straight up dips and has no contact with either of us. Turns out she’s taking mental health days from work to do drugs and go cavorting around the city with one of her other friends who’s been putting her up because she didn’t want to be around us. She left her two cats with us to take care of. Her now ex was frequently away as well (with good reason though) so it fell to me. Shoveling cat shit was not something I wanted to add to my now frantic to-do list as I was trying to secure a new place to live all of a sudden.

So during all this, girl’s ex-boyfriend is a MUCH better friend than she is. Seriously, total bro. I mean the guy is going through this nasty-ass break up and yet he’s calling to check in on me because he know’s I’m freaked out about suddenly having to find a house. Good kid. So the two of us work it out and decide we’ll figure it out together. Meanwhile, suddenly girly-girl shows back up because she’s got to go back to work. She’s acting like a total martyr, no one can complain because “it’s hard for everyone, okay?” and this is all something that’s happening to her, not something she caused herself or whatever the hell her rationale was. She just needed to do something new with her life and we needed to be understanding. Which is fine and all, but doesn’t give her free reign to be a total b****.

Obviously, we weren’t too ready to be all friendly with her, but like she was already to hang out with us and ask for puffs off our joints and shit like that. Afterwards she asked me why I was so “standoffish” and I was just like “are you kidding me? Like you pull all this crap and complain about how this place is toxic for your and then show up and demand we try to make you feel welcome?” After that I think she got it and kind of withdrew. She went back to flopping around the city until the time came to divvy things up and go. She sent me a message asking to still be friends and I sent her a bullet-pointed list of all the reasons I couldn’t do that. I ran into her only once since then and it was awkward AF, but civil. I do have one old mutual friend who is bent on fixing our friendship but I think I’ve made it pretty clear now that it won’t be happening.

Her ex-boyfriend and I are still buddies though. We’re on like our third apartment together. Good times are had by all.”

5. Psyched myself out

“Ally and I were best friends and both in marching band, we went through a lot together and we tried to do everything we could together too lol. I got her and her bf together (they’re still together!) She came for support when I had surgery, and I quit band with her when our director accused her of being at fault when a teacher tried to be inappropriate with her. Lotsa stuff.

She’s 2 years older than me and when she graduated HS, I psyched myself out. Told myself she’d have cool new college friends and she wouldn’t need me or like me anymore. I stopped putting in effort in a “I’ll stop talking to her before she stops talking to me to avoid being hurt” kind of mindset. I regret it very much. By pulling away I made my fear come true. She did make new friends obvs but that didn’t necessarily mean I would be replaced, but since I wasn’t there anymore I was.

We reconnected recently and text every once in a while but it’s certainly not the same.”

6. Sounds like fun

“After several years just realized I always felt awful about myself after leaving his and his family’s presence. Our mutual friends had a saying “it’s not a trip to XXXX’s house until you get criticized.”

From the clothes you were wearing, to how dirty your car is, just a barrage of sh*t.

The final straw was when I was dating my now wife, we went to go hang out at his house, and he immediately pounces on my appearance (was wearing a hardhat all day do my hair looked a little funky), then handed me a bag of aluminum cans for me to recycle “and put towards my house fund” (was in deep saving mode). Fortunately my wife was a good sport, but realizing what the hell this guy was trying to accomplish… embarrassing me in front of someone I’m interested in for no reason at all? Walked out after that and never looked back. Cut out completely.”

7. Changes

“She changed completely our senior year of high school. We were the exact same person, loved the same things, got along like sisters. Then she started prepping for her freshman year of college at a southern school, and completely overhauled her life to look “perfect” for the sororities. She started partying, only hanging out with the “cool kids”, refusing to let me tag her in photos, and just became really focused on her appearance (not just physical, but how her whole life appeared to an outsider). It’s like she lived her life as an Instagram model. Everything had to look perfectly perfect. We just faded out and stopped talking because I didn’t fit her new life.

I still think about her a lot because we were so close and I’ve never had a friend remotely as close to me as her. It hurts a lot that she just changed and left me behind and didn’t seem to care.”

8. Talkin’ sh*t

“She couldn’t stop smack talking me to everyone. She had incredibly low self-esteem and when I met her, so did I. But each step I took towards being more confident in herself, she saw as a threat.

I started working out and losing weight? She told everyone that I was trying to look better than her; eventually that turned into “she stopped going to the gym and just did coke to stay thin”. Nope, never done hard drugs in my life and I was attending double sessions at the gym.

I started seeing this guy who was really sweet and nice to me; she said I was just seeing him to show her what a jerk her boyfriend was.

I was getting a dog after moving out of the apartment; she said I was doing it to taunt her since her new place didn’t allow dogs and mine did (I specifically looked for dog-friendly places).

I’d hang out with different groups of people because my anti-depressants had kicked in and I wanted to be social again; she said I was going out to make her feel bad for not having friends. Except that I’d invite her to come. But she told me she didn’t like those people (whom she’d only met once and was rude the entire time).

I changed my major to business while she was in writing because I found business to be ridiculously easy; she said I did it because I wanted to make her feel poor after graduation.

My parents rented a place at the beach and I invited her along and told her that they’d cover expenses because my parents remembered being poor college students and wanted us to have good meals and fun; she went but later said I invited her along because I wanted to show off my family’s wealth. We went off-season to a cheap place within driving distance.

It got to the point where I couldn’t say any longer that the people telling me these things were lying. It seemed like almost every day I was telling someone they must have misunderstood her, that she wouldn’t say that. But nope. She reveled in being a frenemy and I thought I had a friend. I distanced myself and she went nuclear. I had friends send me screenshots of the insane messages she was sending them about me, completely unprovoked. We haven’t been on speaking terms in almost a decade.”

9. Low points

“We were there through our lowest points in life. I watched her body and life fall apart when she developed an unknown chronic illness in high school. She watched me fall apart when my “friends” and long term boyfriend abandoned me when my mother was dying. She saw me before I was broken and she saw me at my worst. I was there when her dog died. She was my family. Even now if she needed me I would ignore all the problems and go be there for her.

I know her chronic illness causes her to be very depressed. But after so many years of being the only one putting effort into the friendship I had to call it quits. I had suffered an attack from a family member, and had to leave my home. I was homeless for my birthday and her family let me stay on their couch – but she left me alone on my birthday during such a difficult time. She left to be with one of her friends from online – and they went and did all the stuff I always invited her to do but got told no. Going to theme parks, the beach – you name it. And she never did mention my birthday after it passed. That was the final sign I needed that she just didn’t want to be my friend anymore. I’ve cried a lot over that girl.”

10. All about her

“I was best friends with someone for 12 years and we did everything together. Well, everything that she wanted. It was always about her and her schedule, never compromising for me. I went to every event she had, even her parents anniversary dinner.

One year my mother had just passed away and I was home alone. I asked her to come over and she said she was going to a friends house to party because she broke up with her boyfriend. We havent spoken to each other in probably 2 years and I’ve never been happier.”

11. Aggressive

“They showed up on my doorstep red-faced in anger and picked a fight with me (out of nowhere). I was completely dumbfounded and confused but had to defend myself – so I broke their nose. That pretty much ended the fight. I immediately helped them stop the bleeding and get in a taxi. I tried reaching out that day but they ignored all my calls.

Some months later I wrote them a letter asking what had happened. We were such good friends right up until that moment. Turns out a mutual friend had told them I stole something from them (I didn’t). There was some stuff going on in their personal life involving death in the family. They admitted they had had what amounted to a psychological meltdown and taken it out on me.

I forgave them and we grabbed a beer together, but it was never the same.”

12. Paranoid

“We were best friends for 10 years, both 19 M.

One day we decided to smoke some weed, it wasn’t anything out of the usual for us. After about 30 minutes he started getting very paranoid. I don’t mean worried about getting caught (we live in an illegal state & we were smoking in a local park), I mean paranoid that people were out to get him.

It got worse as time went by, every single person who arrived or left the park was a suspect in his eyes. Eventually he then felt as if I was “setting him up”. I kept trying to comfort him but nothing was working. In fact, it escalated things and made it worse.

I finally convinced him to change locations so we got in my car and drove for about an hour until he felt comfortable enough to park somewhere. During that drive I was trying to tell him I’m not setting him up and I’ve no idea where or how he got this idea. He kept denying it and saying I wasn’t telling the truth and he was completely on edge.

We stopped at a fast food restaurant and I got him some food. He didn’t eat it because he felt as if I had done something to it, then he asked that I eat some of it first. I did. He still was not convinced and by this time it had been roughly 2-3 hours since we smoked so he should be sobering up if not coming down.

I dropped him off at his house and ever since then he has never been the same, I’ve only seen him two times after that occasion and it’s been many, many months since we’ve last been in contact. My parents ask about him all the time and I always make up excuses as to why we haven’t been hanging out. We were inseparable

I honestly don’t know what happened, before this we would smoke together left and right. My best guess is some sort of psychosis that came about faster by him smoking weed. We were supposed to enlist together and now I’m leaving alone in December.”

13. Odd person out

“It was a culmination of differing interests and lack of initiation from both of us that led to our falling out. I noticed that the gaps in communication got longer and longer and I didn’t care enough to change it. Everytime we hung out I felt more and more like the odd one who didn’t belong. I don’t think that was his intention but that’s how I felt. Looking back, the only thing we had in common was that we were both held up in the same building for 4 years and nothing more.”

14. Downward spiral

“Alcoholism, drugs, robbed his family blind, tried robbing me and even though he had 800 bucks of my cash stuffed down his pants along with two gold chains sticking out of his pocket and a gold and diamond ring he still denied it.

Took my stuff back, took him back to his house so his parents could deal with him. They tried shipping him off to the army but he failed the drug test, wound up moving to another state and becoming an alcoholic bartender.

We’re the same age, when I see pictures of him now I can’t even recognize him, he looks easily 20+ years older than I do.”

15. Two birds with one stone

“Two of them at the same time actually. Have known them both since early gradeschool. They came to my place and then I drove us downtown. We were bar hopping but ended up at a show. None of us were messed up yet so I asked “hey can one of you guys drive? I wanna take this Molly. But I’m not going to if y’all can’t drive.” My buddy grabs my keys and assured me he’ll be good to drive. So I dove in.

Well, I had a bad reaction and got sick. So we left. Once we hit my car, I laid down and blacked out. Next thing I know, one of my other friends who went to the show was knocking on my window.

Turns out, they got too drunk, ubered back to my place, and got their cars. Instead of taking me home, they left me blacked out in the back of my car in the middle of downtown. They literally took an Uber to my home. And they didn’t take me.

I have not spoken to either since and will more than likely never do so again. These are supposed to be my ride or die bro’s. If they wanted to keep drinking, they shouldn’t have taken my keys. And once that mistake was made, they could’ve fucking got me home safely. But instead they left me alone and unconscious in the back of my car. I could’ve been robbed, my car could’ve been stolen, I could’ve been arrested, etc.”

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Over 20 Men Arrested After Attempting to Lure Kids Using Fortnite

Games are supposed to be a force of good that brings us together. Online games like Minecraft and Fortnite let gamers of all ages connect with each other and play together online. Unfortunately, predators have now taken advantage of the online video gaming world to attempt to lure kids and teenagers to meet them for sex.

In New Jersey in September 2018, 24 adults were arrested for trying to meet underage children for sex, having used games like Minecraft and Fortnite to establish communication. After the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force set up fake profiles for 14 and 15-year-old kids on games and apps, law enforcement officers posing as the kids were approaching by adults who thought they were talking to minors online. Here is a video of New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal announcing the arrests.

Those arrested would strike up conversations with the “minors” and chat with them for up to a week before trying to initiate a meeting in the real world. One of those arrested is actually a police officer, 47-year-old Richard Conte of the Howell Township Police Department. Conte believed he was talking to a 15-year-old girl. He has since been suspended from the force.

The sting took place over a week in Toms River, New Jersey. Men believed they were going to a house to meet an underage minor and instead were arrested when they arrived. The police called the sting “Operation Open House.”

Photo Credit: Facebook,New Jersey OAG

The men who were arrested came from all walks of life, including the aforementioned police officer, a firefighter, a nurse, a physical therapist, and a hotel manager.

District Attorney Grewal said, “It’s critical that parents talk to their children about social media and chat apps to let them know that the people they encounter may not be who they initially seemed to be.”

Photo Credit: Facebook,New Jersey OAG

Hopefully, this will be a wake-up call for parents to keep an eye on their children’s gaming and social media habits, because we all know how easy it is for people to present themselves as someone else online.

If the men are convicted, they face a minimum of 5-10 years in prison and a fine of up to $150,000.

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10+ People Who Never Had Kids Reveal Why They Stand By Their Decision

To have kids or not to have kids…that is the question. And when it comes to debating this issue, people get pretty heated.

If you have chosen NOT to have kids, you’re bound to get endless questions from people about your decision. These AskReddit users explain why they stand by the decision not to have children.

1. Words of wisdom

“A therapist once said to me the test of whether you are ready for a relationship is – Can you keep a plant alive? Great. Now you are ready for a pet. Can you keep a pet alive and happy? Great. Now you are ready to branch out into a relationship.

I have no idea what the test is for having children but somehow like you, I think I might not be ready yet!”

2. That’s what siblings are for

“I was constantly taking care of my older siblings kids when I was 15-16, decided then and there that I didn’t want kids. I don’t regret it.”

3. No regrets

“Mid-fifties here too, married almost 28 years – never regretted not having kids. Not even a little bit. I don’t have the patience, knew I was not meant to be a parent, and yes, obviously you discuss that (and everything else) before you marry.

I’d do it all over again, exactly the same way.”

4. Harsh

“I have had co-workers look at me as if I grew an extra head with horns when I revealed I had no kids and was not planning on having any. They were the worst. Shaking their head in pity, whispering behind my back, patting me on the head while saying “you’ll change your mind.” I have had people tell me I was evil for not wanting kids, that I would burn in hell.

It got so bad, so persistent at about 30yo, I started telling people I was infertile…

BTW, for those of you in their 20s – you will be harassed until about 40…..

Yet, my family accepted it 100%.

There was one point at 35, we wishy washy tried to get pregnant. All I did was go off the pill. We also went to genetic counseling. When we found out there was a 50% chance of a babe being learning disabled like dyslexia (both of us had LD) and a 25% chance of the babe being disabled in other ways like CP or developmental disorders because of a quirky piece of my DNA, I went back on the pill.

Before you all start yelling at me, my CAREER is working with people with disabilities. In theory, I would have been an AWESOME mom of a child with a disability because I knew about IEPs, therapists, interventions, etc. But I knew in my heart, I could not get pregnant knowing I may produce a child that may suffer through what my hubby and I had gone through.”

5. The promise

“I figured that out by 15 when my first nephew was born. I made a promise to myself that I was going to avoid that life no matter what it took.”

6. Oh hell no!

“I’m 51, wife is 53, been married 24 years.

Knew from and early age that kids weren’t for me, saw the struggles of raising one and said “Oh hell no !” to that. Had plenty of others trying to tell me different along the way.”

7. Not gonna happen

“Being the oldest girl from a family that multiplied like rabbits made me the automatic babysitter. I think that’s where my resentment for kids comes from. I love my cousins and will love the siblings to come, but I don’t ever want to care for another kid unless it’s an absolute last resort.”

8. Advice from a parent

“As a parent, I completely respect this outlook and opinion. I actually advocate this. I love when people who don’t want to have kids recognize it for what it is and refuse to let other people pressure them into the “societal norm.” We are at a point in the world where people are perfectly capable of having children later in life. It’s completely normal for women in their 30’s to get pregnant naturally and it’s not unheard of for women in their 40’s to do it either.

And, as long as both people are healthy, it’s perfectly possible to get pregnant with help if you struggle to do so naturally. That being said, there is no rush for people to decide if they want to be parents or not. If you hit 35 and still have no desire to have children, it is extremely unlikely you will ever change your mind. I’d rather have fewer children in the world than more parents who don’t want and/or don’t love the children they brought into the world. So I applaud your honesty with yourself and the world. Good on you!”

9. Can’t change my mind

“This gives me hope. I’ve never wanted children and it seems the men that I date try and change my mind and obviously they can’t. I’m coming towards the end of a relationship that will end because… you guessed it, he wants them and I don’t.

I’m losing hope that I’ll ever find a suitable partner that doesn’t want children but I love hearing things like this because they make me feel just a little better ? Thank you.”

10. Good idea

“I can’t even keep house plants alive. This is best for everyone, including me.”

11. Best decision

“I am 42, never wanted kids and I knew this even at age 12.

I got a lot of random cliches given to me throughout the years, stuff like “you are still young” or “you haven’t found the right girl yet” and the classic “Its different when they are yours” lol that last one always cracked me up.

Fast forward to today, its still the best decision I have ever made, I am happily married, I get to travel, have fun, take up multiple hobbies, enjoy plenty of time for anything I damn well please.

Don’t get me wrong, kids are great and I don’t hate them, I am a proud uncle and godfather. But its just not for me or my wife and that’s how we like it!

Life is good because we are happy and not having kids is a huge part of that happiness.”

12. Not maternal

“I knew even as a teenager that I didn’t want children. I feel like I was born missing that “maternal” gene (except when it comes to animals lol). I too heard it all, “you’ll change your mind” “you’re still young” etc etc. As a woman it can be very hard because a lot of other women (especially in the workplace, I’ve found) will judge and belittle you for not having children. I’m 43 now so hopefully those comments will come to a close soon.”

13. Not for me…

“Love animals, find kids to be weird and gross and not for me. I’m a bit younger (34) and I’m getting the “Tick, tock” comments from people.

I’m an interesting person, my sole reason for being isn’t to pop out a kid. This isn’t the middle ages. There’s several billion women on the planet willing to step up and have plenty of kids. It’s fine if I don’t.”

14. Please leave me alone

“I’ve always known I will never be a parent. My husband and I are totally aligned in this, and live a great life, just the two of us. As a woman, I’ve had to deal with more than two decades of constant condescending “oh dear, you’ll change your mind one day!” Thankfully, at 46, they finally leave me alone.”

15. On our own terms

“My wife and I are 40 and selfishness is the primary reason we don’t have kids. We get to live the life we want on our own terms. A few weeks ago I said “wanna take a road trip to a place that’s 8 hours away this weekend?” We did and it was amazing. No planning needed, just gassed up the car, packed up the dogs and went.”

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