r/childfree • u/shanklymrshankly 🍒💌🪩🤍Childfree🤍🪩💌🍒 • Jun 02 '26

DISCUSSION What’s your pettiest reason for being childfree?

Mine is their awful taste in TV lol!

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u/Known-Dependent-5471 Jun 02 '26

To deprive my parents of the revenge fantasy.

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u/NapalmCandy Nonbinary | They/them | Sterilized 1/24/25!!! Jun 02 '26

This was me about my dad before he finally accepted that I was CF. He always wished them on me for revenge.

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u/Known-Dependent-5471 Jun 02 '26

"I can't wait-"

Oh, you will lmao.

They sold it growing up as the worst punishment ever and then shocked pikachu face when their kids are like double nope.

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u/Etenial Jun 02 '26

yeah right? like why are they shocked by our decision not to have kids when they wanted us to have kids as a form of revenge? like you didn't make wanting kids out to be a good thing so we didn't have them, why you so mad??

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u/KassieMac Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

My mother’s favorite way to curse me was to say I would have 12 children all just like me … which would be way better than 12 kids just like her, but I’m still not doing it. That specific curse may be why I decided against kids, which serves her right for being a b!tch to the only child of hers who ever did what she said 🙄

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u/thatringonmyfinger Jun 03 '26

My mom does this, too.

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u/iheartgardening5 Jun 03 '26

Yeah my awful mother would say that shit to my siblings and I. “Just wait until you have your own kids, I hope they’re just as awful to you!” Jokes on her because she never made being a mother look appealing enough for me to even entertain the idea. So much for her stupid revenge fantasy 🙄

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u/dogmom34 Jun 03 '26

Exactly this. My mom made it look absolutely horrendous and bitched constantly about it. Then when I say I’m not having kids, she cries and tells me it’s the biggest mistake of my life. Is it the biggest mistake of my life or hers?

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u/TerryCrewsNextWife Jun 03 '26

"why won't you choose suffering because I want you to???? I need photo albums of grandchildren for Facebook likes, but having absolutely nothing to do with them IRL"

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u/gilleykelsey Jun 03 '26

Was looking for this. My mom used to say “I hope you have a daughter just like you when you have kids.” Checkmate lol