But who wants to pay a debt she can escape? Apparently, the childless get away with something sneaky. Once I had a toddler in tow, every man I knew-every woman, too, which is depressing-would take me less seriously.)ġ0. (I had never had a decent conversation with a friend's five-year-old in the room.)ĩ. I did, even at the outset, admit this to myself.)Ĩ. Unnatural altruism: being forced to make decisions in accordance with what was best for someone else. I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.)ĥ. My sister-in-law had developed bulging varicose veins in her legs during pregnancy that never retreated, and the prospect of calves branched in blue tree roots mortified me more than I could say. (I was slight, and preferred to stay that way. The kid's insufferable friends and their insufferable parents.)Ĥ. Rather, it might have looked something like this:Ģ. “Had I catalogued the downsides of parenthood, "son might turn out to be a killer" would never have turned up on the list.
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