Kids, Religion, Parents and Childfree: Slight overreaction?

Slight overreaction?

By Anonymous - 19/03/2020 07:37

Today, my husband and I recently decided not to have kids, because neither of us like children. Learning this, my dad wrote me out of his will and my mother swore on the Bible in church that she’s never going to speak to me again until I obey God's word and start multiplying. FML

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It's not a phase, mom!

By gelly donut - 22/10/2023 20:00

Today, my parents disowned me because I told them I don’t want kids. FML

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Freedom

By heartbroken - 17/04/2023 09:00 - United States

Today, I’m devastated that I had to completely sever all ties with my mother. She’s a hyper religious zealot who’s gone as far as to threaten to kidnap my children in order to get them baptized after I refused to raise them in her archaic, abusive, oppressive cult-like “church”. FML

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You deserved it 163

Embarrassment

By Anonymous - 06/01/2013 21:35 - Sweden - Staffanstorp

Today, at the reading of my mother's last will and testament, I found out that despite having cared for her for the final years of her life, she denied me an inheritance. She basically said I'm an embarrassment, because when she wrote it, I was 31 years-old, with no wife or children. FML

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You deserved it 2 398

Breeders

By Anonymous - 21/04/2022 14:00

Today, my mom is threatening to disinherit me because I won’t have a baby. I have three siblings who between them have seven kids for her to obsess over, yet she calls at least once a week and always tries to convince me to get pregnant. Fuck off mom. FML

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But mah grandbabiiiiies

By Anonymous - 01/07/2022 02:00

Today, according to my mom, she didn’t make the selfless decision to have me just for me to grow up and make the completely selfish decision not to marry my long term partner, nor to give her any grandkids. FML

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You deserved it 170

Family values

By this is impossible - 05/01/2016 00:21 - United States - Norristown

Today, my dad sat me and my sister down and give us a "talk". More like an angry irrational rant. He forbade us from being gay, marrying a Muslim or a black person, demanded kids from both of us, and threatened to disown us if we didn't. Where's my free will? FML

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Devil parents

By Pandaling - 26/01/2020 05:00 - United States - Minneapolis

Today, my mother-in-law said: "People who don't have kids are children of the devil." I'm infertile, she knows this. FML

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You deserved it 139

Heretic!

By hail science! - 21/04/2020 08:00

Today, my sister-in-law is refusing to let me or my children be a part of her kids' lives. She’s even going as far as trying to make my brother stop speaking to us as well. Why? Simply because I'm an atheist. FML

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Promises, promises

By Anonymous - 24/05/2023 10:00

Today, after my ex had promised his mother he’d give something from her estate to my kids when she died, so she never bothered to change her will to include them, and she died a few weeks ago so I asked him about it because my eldest is going to university soon. He laughed in my face and shut the door. FML

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By Anonymous - 25/11/2015 17:30 - Switzerland - Corminboeuf

Today, I told my parents I don't really like children and probably won't have any in the future. They sat me down and gave me a lecture on how people who hate kids are heartless. FML

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MorganHex 28

Thursday 19 March 2020 11:55

Time to get some new parents. I'd ghost them. it's their loss. Or if you want you can lie and say you are infertile.

Dale Gulley 8

Thursday 19 March 2020 13:01

Do what makes you happy, not the family

Comments

MorganHex 28

Thursday 19 March 2020 11:55

Time to get some new parents. I'd ghost them. it's their loss. Or if you want you can lie and say you are infertile.

Dale Gulley 8

Thursday 19 March 2020 13:01

Do what makes you happy, not the family

RichardPencil 30

Thursday 19 March 2020 15:41

It's totally understandable. Most people find that parenting children is very difficult and demands sacrifice, but being a grandparent is pure joy. You're screwing them out of the good part and you are just paying the consequences.

demix_fml 32

Thursday 19 March 2020 19:08

This sucks op, I’m really sorry.

spinspinsugar 12

Thursday 19 March 2020 20:11

thank **** my family didn't act like this when I told them my husband and I don't want kids

Sady_Ct 37

Thursday 19 March 2020 23:37

Buhahahah! Stick to your guns! Children are not the be all and end all, so many unloved and neglected kids out there, so many little ***** cos the parents couldn’t be bothered raising decent little humans. I applaud you OP, you are a light in the darkness.

ViviMage 38

Friday 20 March 2020 1:31

I am Child free, and my fiancé and I have medical reasons that if we pass onto the kids... we aren't having our own kids, we would be adopting. And we aren't at a stage where we want kids in the mix. My mom is ok with my choice as long as it was my choice and not just his, the potential mother in law wanted to name our kids, and is kinda upset she is having grandpuppies...