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What did someone want to gift you the last time you wanted to turn down the gift (and why)? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] boogetyboo@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago

Oh wow.

Had she done that when you were younger and she assumed you would have kids? I can kinda empathise with that. Making them I mean... But giving them to you...? Yeesh.

The boomers assumed we'd follow the same predetermined path as they did. My mum certainly thought I would, and so did I up until my late 20s. It was then when I realised whenever I thought about having kids it was with a sense of dread for something I assumed was inevitable.

Lucky for me my sister had a whole bunch so the pressure was off.