Is it normal that i dread family functions becausei hate kids?

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i love the holiday season. honestly. but i dread the noisy, kid infested get togethers at my in laws. kids everywhere!! i swear none of them can speak in an "inside voice." the adults sit around talking about the kids and if i'm really lucky they make everyone play a board game together. 8 adults and 5 fired up kids playing trivial pursuit?!!! it's a nightmare!!! i've never been a "kid person", it's to much to take. then there's the dreaded conversatipon about how i'm almost 30 and my "clocks ticking!" i don't want children and although i've said this they;re response is always, "when they're you're own you'll feel diffrently." it's an awful awful time and it's the worst part of all my holidays. is this normal? does anyone else dread this?

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  • dillin
    12 years ago

    Even when I was a kid I hated other kids. They're so... Childish.

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  • SoundThinker
    12 years ago

    I hate it when people say 'when they're your kids you'll understand'. It's like they're keeping some big secret you'll never know til you have kids, and then they can go and say 'I told you so ;3'

    Never have children. You show them! Let your clock tick its last tick without ever reproducing. That's what I'm doing. The world is seriously over-populated enough as it is.

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    • wistfulmaiden
      9 years ago

      You should tell them" when the aliens return my ovaries maybe I'll consider having a kid"

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    I have to honestly say some of the times that I feel the most lonely are not really family get togethers per say, but large gatherings of people, say a holiday dinner at a friend's house with other couples or some silly function like that at work. I am certainly not anti social or standoffish, but when I go to just one of these things I can say I would easily be able to go months on end before wanting to go to another.

    I also cant stand, literally I have to hold myself in check, when someone sits idly by and lets their own kid misbehave. Its all I can do to not discipline the kid myself and then yell at the parent for allowing it.

    I also agree with SoundThinker that this planet is overpopulated as it is. Anyone who has 5 or more kids should not be allowed to continue pro-creating. And those idiots on that TLC show 27 kids and counting or whatever it is should be forcibly sterilized.

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    • wistfulmaiden
      9 years ago

      I think three kids should be max.
      Hell even Abraham in the bible had 12 kids but from 4 women !

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  • Avant-Garde
    9 years ago

    Can you opt out of going? I hate going to family functions because they are always people who want to know extremely personal aspects to my life. I dread the questions: "Are you dating (yet)?", "When are you going to have kids.", "When are you going to get married.", etc. I get enough pressure already from my grandmother. =_=

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  • wistfulmaiden
    9 years ago

    I didn't used to feel this way but the older I get the less I enjoy being around groups of people. Some of my husbands relatives are pretty unbearable and I want to punch them in the face.
    I hardly have any relatives in my side, all the nice ones have died:(

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  • sinkurepa
    12 years ago

    When you have to babysit 5 of the 13 kids that showed up, instead of going to IHOP with your bros.... yeah.

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  • joybird
    12 years ago

    Try this really radical solution - DON'T GO!!

    Go back when they've grown up, in the meantime do exactly what you WANT to do! Don't waste a precious minute of your life putting up with crap anywhere or with anyone!

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    I don't have family reunions. However, i do get annoyed when I see parents ignoring their child when they're misbehaving.

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    • goodatit
      12 years ago

      yea ur right

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  • kathycat
    12 years ago

    i always want to tell them, "ok. i'll have kids. then if i decide i don't feel differently and don't want them, you're going to take them. right?"

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