How do you know that you want to have children? For most of my young adult life, I've always said I never wanted them. Now I'm with a partner and I'm rethinking my stance, but I'm still so unsure. It's a serious thing to bring a new life into the world and be responsible for it....I go back and forth a lot now
Yes omg. I want a baby so bad, I want the experience of continuing human experience through my body and through shared love with my partner. I’m spiritually hungry for a baby. But realistically? It scares me. I’m so free, I move all the time, I go out to parties whenever I want, I work a million jobs because I find it fun, I sit in silence for hours each day watching the birds outside of my window. And all of that would change with a baby.
But I think being a mother is fated for me. I think it will make me a better writer, a better human, a better lover. I think that a lot of my fear around having a child, goes hand in hand with my fear of commitment. Even though… i am actually a very loyal and dedicated person once i decide on something.
Theres an aspect to motherhood that scares me because i think “woah ive never experienced myself in that shape, and i dont trust myself”. Anyways, i have a million things to say about it. But the thing that keeps me aligned with having a child? Being in love, and looking at a partner in bed and thinking, i want more of you in the world. I want more of us in the world. And how can we go wrong if this love is overflowing to the point that all we can do is create another body to hold onto love with us?