Everyone's Institutionalized

Okay, so I have been doing a study on relationships, and comparing being single to being hooked up, and / or married.

I have come to the conclusion that, whichever state we are in, we are institutionalized. If we are married, we must have this other in the house with us, most of the time. One or the other of the mates will require this. Sometimes both need it. Two become one, and then they go home and find out which one!

If we are single long enough, we get set in our ways, and do not care for anyone else in our private living space, for very long, at all.

Single has its advantages, though. The absence of children is quite nice, really. You put something down, it is there when you go back for it. The house is not always sticky. Or loud. Or looks like a shipwreck.

I have two adorable nieces that I get to see once in awhile, and they have both promised to bring me cookies when I get old... I'm set!

"Your own kids" may just very well be over-rated!

Consider; who is to say they will be worth anything? Some kids, no matter how many times you discipline them, nor what ways you use, are just rotten to the core. Who is to say you won't get one of them? Or what if it is eternally handicapped, and can't be of any use to you when you are old? Now you not only have to worry about who will take care of you, but who will take care of this other burden.

And if you get a real sweetheart of a daughter, or a model son, who is to say that they won't marry wrong, or fatally? That they won't keep the grandchildren away from you, just to spite you. Because these in-laws are really out-laws, and are not in fact anywhere near the model son or daughter that you contributed to their horrid genetic line! There is just so much that can go wrong!

Oh, but you need someone look after you when you get old!

Really?!

I have worked in a number of end-care nursing homes, back when I was in my teens, and I have never yet seen a patient who ultimately did not believe the child caregiver - his or her own child - was siding with the staff in collusion against the patient...

No, I don't really see the point. Children are a by-product of a relationship, and should be taken on those terms. Not to expect too much out of them, nor have them simply for someone to mow the yard for a few years. Lawn Care is ultimately much cheaper than Child Care!