Aug 9, 2024
Quick reminder to everyone to keep their sketchbooks out of the small kids. LOOK WHAT THAT LITTLE GREMLIN DID TO MY DRAWING AND MARKER BLEED THROUGH 5 PAGES.
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Quick reminder to everyone to keep their sketchbooks out of the small kids. LOOK WHAT THAT LITTLE GREMLIN DID TO MY DRAWING AND MARKER BLEED THROUGH 5 PAGES.
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So I started listening to this book yesterday (side note: they created the audiobook file from the book recorded onto discs and didn’t edit out the “this is the end of disc one” parts… silly) and it’s about a woman that doesn’t want kids. She talks about how all her past relationships had usually ended when it came to this difference of opinion in past partners. She had given up hope and then she met her husband and everything aligned… they loved each other, lives worked well together, all that good stuff, AND he didn’t want children either.
Some years into their marriage they’ve been a united front about the kids thing. Any time they’re given a hard time about not having kids, they both argue their reasons and that’s it. Then one day the husband changes his mind. He decides that he wants children. The protagonist remains steadfast in her decision of not wanting kids. I’m only 14% into the book and it’s only been like a chapter of it, but I’m getting really annoyed for the character at the husband’s efforts in trying to “change her mind”. He argues all these “positives” and just kind of glosses over any of her arguments against procreating. He says that he’ll do everything and get up with the baby at night… sure, how long would that last? He argues about pregnancy that “it’s only 9 months”… yeah, 9 months of being held hostage by a parasite that can literally destroy her body and kill her in any number of ways. No one should be forced or coerced into parenthood.
I’m not sure how this story is going to unfold. She just left the husband in the middle of the night and ran to her best friend. If the husband wants a child that badly, he needs to get divorced and go find someone that also wants a child… not attempt to bully his wife that has been steadfast in her lack of desire for children since before they met.
Spoilers ahead…
Ok, it’s a couple days since I wrote the above and I’ve finished the book. It was a STRUGGLE y’all. The protagonist did go through with divorcing her husband, so most of the book was just about her getting through her post-divorce stuff and missing him. Though by the end she decided that although she still really didn’t want children, she missed and loved him enough to have one just to get him back. It book finishes a little open ended… they’re back together, but not definitely having a kid. The husband missed her enough too to be willing to not have a kid if they can be together… which seems like a better choice. I wouldn’t want to be this couple’s future child… to have been unwanted by one of your parents. Inevitably the kid will find out that their mother didn’t really want children. That’s going to be a lot of future therapy and mental problems.
I don’t think I’m going to read any more of this author’s books. I vaguely recall the other two I’ve read having awful, annoying characters. Sorry Emily, I’m out.
Books I’ve Read in 2022
Number 16
Baby Proof by Emily Giffin
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