It's Funny Cause It's....

[teratologist]

Many years ago, with one of my high school boyfriends, I had an in-joke. It was a pretty you had to be there sort of thing. It revolved around, if we ever had a kid, and the kid ever became a born-again Christian, the techniques we would use to dispose of this kid's said body after killing him. Yeah, amazingly, I have not always been the shining

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[mothwentbad]

Wow. Yes. Excellent. I'm going to see if the library has this.

[teratologist]

I hope the second 100 pages don't turn out to suck or I'm going to look pretty silly.

[mothwentbad]

I can drag my feet a little and watch for updates. You probably read fast, yes?

[squirrel_monkey]

This sounds great. Please keep posting! (Also, yes on motherhood.)

[kryptyd]

My goodness, thank you so much for putting this into words so eloquently! I have always has a vague unease about the idea of having kids, and it's mainly about the way it seems to effect mothers, rather than a hatred of the sprogs themselves. I've always said (either to myself or to people I trust enough not to take grave offence) that motherhood usually makes women "mental". You've put it a lot more sympathetically and in a more detailed way than I've been able, but it rings a bell. Thanks!

typo!

[kryptyd]

I "has" unease? I can has contraception nao plz?

[buymeaclue]

So...hmm. I'm not sure "glad" is quite the word I want here, re: the way/fact of the book's working for you. But you know, I hope, what I mean?

(I'm not sure it came entirely clear in the bookpost. But I do love Eva.)

[teratologist]

Don't worry, it did.

[soldurios]

I hear you. I never envisioned marriage for me and the idea of having a kid...it galls me. First of all, there's the pregnancy limitations. I can't go without my caffeine. Then there's the pain. I'm thoroughly uninterested in experiencing that in my life. Then there's the raising of the brat

[teratologist]

She pretty explicitly has the kid entirely to please her husband. And as the book goes along, I get the feeling more and more that her biggest mistake (and the one that I find least understandable) is not so much in having the kid as in A.) marrying this guy in the first place and B.) not divorcing him and giving him full custody as soon as he makes it clear where his head's at. I'm still not finished with it, but that's where I see things pointing as of right now.

[soldurios]

Figures, really.

Still, it always surprises me just why it surprises parents that are clearly unloving toward their child that the kid grows up to be not the most well-adjusted sort.