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Yeah, seems obvious but when your entire childhood is filled with shame because "there are starving kids in Africa so finish your plate", it's not so simple. Or when you realize that eating is the basically the only joy you have in life, it's not so simple. Or when you have to take medications for your mental health and the side effects are that you over eat, it's not so simple. Or when you have no time to exercise bc both you and your wife have to work to afford anything in this stupid economy, it's not so simple.
It is fucking simple.
If this is insurmountable you are a lost cause unless you go get therapy.
Figure out how to not impress this attitude on your children. If you can't, don't have children.
Simple.
hey man, people have struggles. just because you don't have those struggles, and i don't have those struggles, doesn't mean they're not valid struggles for the people who do have them. a bit of understanding can go a long way. or as one of my favorite musicians once said, "a little goddamn compassion never hurt a motherfucker."
and regardless of my personal opinion on having kids, i don't see what it has to do with this conversation.