Family planning? More like family SCAMMING
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My family is trying to plan a family vacation right now and I'm being excluded from all the planning. This is fine by me since I don't really give AF about what happens; I just want to enjoy my vacation.<br><br>Last night my parents sat me down and had a very serious talk with me. I assumed it was going to be about the trip, but lo and behold! It was about how I need to start having kids soon! I'm 28M and my fiance is 27F and we aren't even close to married yet. We aren't even thinking about kids until we buy a house, which we are saving up for now. We both are working really hard to be stable in life.<br><br>They told me I'm running out of time, that I'm going to regret not having kids, that my fiance is going to leave me for not giving her kids (we've talked and we both are on the same page), I need to have kids because my parents want grandkids, etc, etc, etc. They then brought up that we're both too hard on our careers and need to focus on having kids. All of this is stuff we've heard before from them, so it was nothing new. They then said that they won't help us buy a house unless we agree to have kids. My dad then said he'll cut ties with me if I don't have kids and that I'll be breaking the chain of our family if I don't. Idk why but that really pissed me off and I got up and walked out of the room. They didn't talk to me the rest of the night.<br><br>This morning my mom told me they're going to buy a house for my brother and his wife because they're expecting their first child. I asked why they couldn't do that for me and she gave me a straight answer that they won't help me and fiance with anything unless we're having kids.<br><br>I just feel really angry and upset. I feel like my parents want to control every aspect of my life. They want to plan out everything for me and don't care about what I want. I feel bad because my fiance and I are perfectly happy with our decisions and know exactly what we want. I know this isn't the last conversation we're going to have with my parents and I know it's only going to get worse.
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