• exasperation@lemm.ee
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    19 hours ago

    I’ve never really liked “children” in the sense of the age group, but I know a bunch of people who have really great, meaningful relationships between adult children and their parents, so I wanted adult children in my late middle ages and retirement ages.

    Now, with my own children, I primarily see them as future adults who I get to watch develop into cool people.

    • Spitefire@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      Same. I also expected to like all children more after having mine, but I don’t. Even though I adore my kid, I still dislike children.