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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
The comic must be a complete story.
If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
You may post comics from others or your own.
If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
Politeness.
Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.

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submitted 4 days ago by livbon to c/comicstrips

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If you don't want kids, don't have kids.

Don't let family, or even your significant other pressure in to it.

I'm sure it is fulfilling for some, but some parents are carrying too much guilt to admit have a kid can lead to depression.

[–] krashmo 40 points 4 days ago

It definitely can. It took me 5 years after my kids were born to feel relatively normal again. 5 years is a long time to feel like you're essentially trapped in your home. Granted, covid certainly didn't help with that, but the pressure to act like everything is amazing all the time never made sense to me.

Kids are hard. There's good moments too but as a percentage of your time they are more rare than the bad. Your brain does a good job of filtering out the bad when you look back on those times but that doesn't make it easier to deal with in the moment.

[–] Strider 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's not that easy. Things change.

I am happy to have made the decision. However, I might have decided totally differently if I had known back then:

How badly the environment is going south (for humans) How bad my health would be (most critical things came up suddenly)

Among other things.