I was watching DS9 last night and they said "Chief O'Brien can't be a day over 38"
-_-
It's heteronormativity, that's why it's creepy imo. An alien cat is creative and spontaneous, playing marriage is following the script that society expects us to.
It's not bad on the kids part, ofc, but as a former little girl married to a woman, I'm sad that I had to face a lot of deep seated feelings that I was somehow 'doing marriage wrong'. It would be great if kids just...got to figure themselves out.
Addendum - it's also weird to have little kids fantasizing about marriage, or their perfect adult spouse, could not agree more. Stop projecting onto kids.
I went through the same arc- it lead to binge drinking and getting my wife to drink with me, too.
I quit in Dec '22, and I wake up feeling free from booze everyday, seriously. Every day I open my eyes and don't have that nasty sweet taste on my tongue, or that dry eye & mouth feeling, I am relieved!
Now I'm 60lbs lighter (I DRANK drank), I exercise before work because it turns out I'm a morning person (!?), most of my health issues have resolved, and I'm not throwing away money on poison.
IWNDWYT
This is quite a take.
The weather, constant UV exposure, car fumes and tire particles, people shouting abuse and throwing shit sounds like awesome self-employment. Remember, if you look at all comfortable you don't fit the narrative.
That isn't even worth $40 an hour and I seriously doubt that figure, people don't even like making eye contact with folks standing on roadsides and they don't carry cash.
Do you have anything supporting this?