Recent content by Rembrandtfan

I guess they automatically figure childfree=hates children, and they think "how can you hate children when you were a child once?" And I figure that the more I understand what it was like for me as a child, and the dysfunctional patterns I grew up with, the more I realize it was the best...

Sometimes it is necessary to remove the ovaries with cysts or fibroids. My sister had fibroids too, and had to get her ovaries removed. She is using an estrogen patch, and is doing fine. She feels better overall. My hairdresser had it all removed and said she never needed to use hormones. I...

No, but I admire your desire to so so. And I would love to be a part of something like that.

Nope. I kept my ovaries and nothing has changed. If anything I have experienced vast improvment in all departments ;) because my monstrous fibroids aren't interfering anymore. Those kind of stories really peeve me because they seem designed to scare women from getting hysterectomies, and...

I agree. Kids have to be allowed to be kids. I'm just realizing how much lately I wasn't allowed to be one. When you have an alcoholic/rageaholic father and a codependent mother, you aren't allowed to be a child. You can never rock the boat and you must already know everything without being...

DH got fixed in 1997. I had a hysterectomy 3 months ago which was medically necessary and would have eventually became an emergency. No pregnancies will happen here.

I've been reading some really good books lately which have cleared up some confusion in my life. All of them are about how to take healthy ownership over our lives, and knowing what we are responsible for and what we are not. I grew up in a household where I learned that I was expected to bear...

I had a car catch on fire a few years ago. I started it and smoke came out , I thought it just overheated but I found out after it sat for a few minutes that one of the wires that the battery connected to caught on fire. It turned out that the guy who had just worked on it messed up when he...

I had the misfortune of seeing it only because a friend turned it on when I was at her house. I never saw what all the fuss was about.

Yeah, they hit here in Kentucky all the time, but I'm usually indoors hiding in my basement. And they are usually in the surrounding areas, but never a direct hit where I'm at.

I have never... Broken a bone either. Traveled outside of North America. Seen a tornado personally, nor do I hope to.

1. Do you have friends who are parents? Yes, but most of them have older or adult children. My closest friends are either single, childless/childfree, or empty-nesters. 2. Do you find it difficult ot be friends with them? It is difficult with people who have small children because they have...

Exercise Chocolate, or any dessert for that matter. Music -- classical in particular

I'm a little late, so Happy Belated Christmas!

Because DH snores, he sleeps in our spare bedroom much of the time so that I can get some sleep and be fit to live with. I don't think that has any bearing on our level of intimacy, we are best friends and share everything else other than our bed.