The amount of millennial couples I know who have broken up and are now doing dog visitation or sharing dog custody is just…
Why in the actual fuck are people treating dogs like human babies?
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
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Replacement therapy for not having real kids, a fiat construct
Do you own a dog?
Fur babies are our kids 😂
Because a dog doesn't require a human to stop being selfish, whereas a child does. They substitute having babies with pets because it's way more limited than the real thing.
I'm pretty sure they're the ones taking the crazy pills though. You're one of the sane ones!
i have a friend that the last item in their divorce is dog custody. the dog is like 14...like you cant just decide it lives out its last few months with one of you? it has to be in the legal doc? insanity
Operable word. Own.
You don’t own your child.
Actually my dog owns me
What tricks does it have you do?
Bro I saw a car the other day with the bumper sticker "Dog Grandma". What the actual fuck man. You are just a lady with a dog, and the dog is a parent. Your dog is achieving more than you have, and you celebrate with a bumper sticker LOL
Fetch the ball, and he takes me on walks
Lol, wait until you see videos with things like 
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I know too many millennial couples who have decided they aren’t going to have kids. Definitely related to your observation.
Sometimes it's hard being the sane one in a crazy world... but there are still plenty of who remember better times when crazy wasn't the norm.
They are people who shouldn't have kids.
Pretty much everyone should have kids. With very rare exceptions
I disagree with this statement and agree with @Yarnlady 🧶
There’s nothing to disagree with. This is just the way things work.
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Some aren’t fit for it. Raising kids is a serious job.
But there is mental illness.
True lol
99% of people should have kids
😂 thanks for the sats and the conversation.
It definitely changes how you experience live and make decisions.
In the Netherlands we had a president who has no kids and clearly doesn’t care about the future. He lied, made idiotic decisions for years and degraded the country insanely. This dude now is the secretary general of the NATO. A very dangerous position for a lying piece of sh*t imo. I don’t trust him for anything he does.
If this guy would have had kids, I think he would have made other choices in life, for the better.
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having kids fixes you
WOMEN
You should change your name to Fetch Marie.
I noticed exactly the same. Driving around with bicycles and a dog on it instead of kids give me headaches.
Replacing an emotional void with children or dogs doesn’t end well. Too many emotionally immature adults out there with neglected children who end up self-parenting themselves. My mom has an ngo that helps single moms and the stories of neglected children are so traumatising. Maybe work on inner peace and stability first. When you are whole, everything becomes a privilege and joy - your partner, children, animals.
I think people should be more upset about why there are so many broken relationships and broken families, compared to dogs. But it's also interesting to observe what people value.
Because they don't have kids, but they have a hole in their soul that wants kids, so they substitute dogs for kids, like substituting living together for marriage, and pretend their dog is a kid, and form unhealthy and dysfunctional attachments to their dog, so naturally, split custody makes sense to these insane people.
It reminds me of women who never became mothers, and have the unmet need to mother children, so they get into government to "mother" the electorate.
True. Who wants to become Bill Mare, who is single and childless? No one in their right mind. It shows that he's single and childless in his immaturity, and he's made his audience his wife and kids presumably.
It's the nature of reality.
The exception to the rule does not negate the rule.
Instead of having dogs, have kids.
They live longer.
The amount of millennial couples I know who have broken up and are now doing dog visitation or sharing dog custody is just…
Why in the actual fuck are people treating dogs like human babies?
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
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Sounds like someone who has never bonded with an animal.
Wow. Thanks!
I was in a 10 year relationship, it probably only should’ve lasted five years, but we stayed together primarily because we shared a dog.
In retrospect, I should’ve left that relationship much sooner, but when I started dating her, neither one of us wanted kids.
As an only child, my dog was the first time that I learned to love something more than myself, and now I’m a very proud father.
I completely understand this phenomenon, because I lived it. Time to perspective, and I’m grateful I found my way.
At this point, since my daughter arrived, I have basically given them up, but I’ll never let him go… View quoted note →
Lol my brother and his ex are doing this, i did not know it was a thing
I get the frustration—dogs aren’t kids, but people are getting way too attached. It’s like they’re projecting human emotions onto pets, which feels a bit unhinged to me. I like animals too, but I don’t see them as humans.
This doesn’t happen in my part of Europe. Like, at all, haven’t seen this. People are generally still sane about most things if compared to the rest of the West. My hope is that we’ll just end up skipping that phase.
Also, don’t care too much about whatever that is that people who play-pretend being adults do.
It’s a jungle out there
Treating animals like humans is a satanic shit!
Why are you so concerned with other people caring about animals? Is it because deep down you know you pay people to torture and murder animals on a daily basis and are trying to cope?
I will sneak that dog away in the night.
You will try.
The next step is to be mandatory to send those pet to school.
dont like dogs for that reason
the reactions of people meeting the dog
just sucks
The ruling class want to decimate global population. One of the ways they're using is reducing natality by pushing abortion, rising taxes to families, financing lgbti communities...
Thus, as parentship in inherent to human kind, dogs come as a substitute for children for those who bought that policy.
People today think "doghouse" is a idiom and don't realize it used to be the same way to treat them.
Who cares?
Sexual trauma.
Me
Wut
You’re trying to shame me for being normal? lol
It gets weirder and weirder every day under fiat.
I was an emotionally neglected child. Let me tell you the only thing that heals it is having your own kids.
Pets are soooo important...then you have kids, and the proper hierarchy is restored.
My dog is great, but if there's a house fire it's kids, wife and a sincere "God speed" to doggo 🫡
Lol. I'm a dog owner and I really don't like coming across othr dog owners on walks. I'm the most anti social dog owner in history for this reason 🤣
Absolutely. You double back for the dog. He’s a trusted companion and buddy but he’s ultimately a replaceable member of the family.
10000%
great
Flood it again
The dog-human bond is stronger than many people realize.
Nah this behavior is just a sad pathetic simulacrum of having a real marriage and a real child.
Wife would get @npub138y5...aszc if we ever split up, not even a question. I would still have full rights to his nostr account though.
We live in a society where half of all marriages end in divorce now. I know someone who shares custody of both a dog and a kid with two different exes.
Maybe for people that don't have anything more meaningful in life than their dog... That's sad.
At least it's sincere. 😂
Anyone that wants to see society progress and not regress....
That is a wild comment.
Disorder and confusion everywhere.
Not wanting kids is like not wanting to be healthy or lose weight. Just because you don't want it doesn't mean you shouldn't do it.
Just part of the clown world we live in.
Soon as I had a kid, I see where I went wrong, and wish I did it 10+ years ago.
I would have grown up much sooner.
This has been the most insane stretch of my life, but I treasure every fucking second of it.
mission accomplished 💪🏽
It’s actually not true that half of all marriages end in divorce. That stat is skewed by people who get married and divorced multiple times. It’s probably about 30%.
When it's $20k per kid, only for married couples.
We're in to have 7.
stop feeding the dog tell me how strong the bond is
The dog is using you for food and giving you what you need and appearance of loyalty 
They don’t listen to country music so they don’t know loosing the dog is part of the song😂
Who else is going to lick peanut butter off my balls?
I understand where you are coming from, but just because a child comes from dysfunctional parents does not mean they themselves will follow the same route and could potentially contribute greatly to society- like Salvador Dali and Ben Franklin. And a child from the best parents ever could become a monster like Jeffrey Epstein, and Ted Bundy.
I personally wouldn't want a child to start off with "bad" parents, but what defines bad and good is ambiguous and saying certain people shouldn't have children can become a dangerous argument. That's just my asshole. 😂
Things you don’t understand aren’t necessarily always a symptom of societal degradation. It’d be wise to consider the possibility that other people can derive joy and meaning in ways you don’t.
Did you not get affection as a child?
Sure but this phenomenon is straight up societal degradation
great logical comeback.
LMAO
a real dog gives much more than the appearance of loyalty. This guy we lost to cancer recently would have undoubtedly died to defend my kids, wife or me. You've obviously never had a proper dog. When he found mice under the snow he would bring them to us. I feel bad for you that you've never had a real bond with a real dog.
Having kids and raising them well are two very different things. You seem like someone who knows the difference and is passionate about being a good father. Wishing you well. Wouldn't hurt not to pick on dog lovers on a weekend :) If you’re feeling fiery, there are always oppressive governments globally or bad people to take on instead.
Not that he is more important than my kids or wife in anyway but I would rather have him than 95% of the humans I've met. 100% unconditional loyalty...
I simply don’t trust people who don’t love dogs.
agreed, mostly, he is not replaceable though will never have one like him again
The best is when you hear two grown adults that have no kids complain about how hard life is or how hard it is to pay bills, have savings etc. It’s like, we got 3 kids over here you have no idea what struggle is, not even close.
Very true all of this, and I'd never tell someone to have or not have a child. It's none of my business. Your asshole makes a good point 😂
You’re trying to shame childless people. What’s the point.
Haha thank you 😂
It’s not normal to be childless
You kind of took the word right out of my mouth.
Normal: conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected. Sounds pretty fiat brained to me.
You believe it’s “fiat” for our species to survive and reproduce? lol
Marketing mostly and societal norms shifting. I just heard someone talk about spending thousands on medicine for their dog. People aren’t having children young or are lonely and they latently love spending money
I haven't heard it put this way before. Interesting take.
Your desire for things to remain normal is fiat brain.
He didn't pick on dog lovers, he picked on people who trade their dogs like kids.
My desire for our species to continue existing you mean. Yes how very fiat of me lol
True, at least I would hope so. It's interesting to hear some people with kids talk about the world they are leaving to them. I've been planning to have kids for a very long time, and a huge reason I write books is so that my kids and descendants will know me and learn the hard won lessons I've sussed out over my decades of adventures. My wife and I are expecting our first baby this September.
You need a dog Hodl 😂
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your proselytizing can get grating b/c you harp on the child thing incessantly. almost like you’re trying to convince yourself. almost.
I just think most people including yourself aren’t aware of how bad the population collapse data is.
Have one. He’s chill. Were buds.
I get your point about the current situation, but I want to remind you that the dog has been man’s best friend since the times of hard money.
I think I get the enormity of the problem - if that’s your hill, preach away homie
I have many hills
I love dogs. I’m not saying don’t own a dog. Just saying it’s not a baby.
I’m kidding, it’s far from normal to be childless
Wow, congrats! That’s something to look out for. 🤩And great that you’re writing off the hard worn lessons 🔥
... It's very easy to explain ;)
the psyop runs deep
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What psyop? I was calling him out for how he was shaming childless people to make his point. It’s unnecessary.
the psyop to not have kids lol
That has nothing to do with what I was saying.
LoL, exactly! It's very sincere. I really like my dog! (just you know, not THAT much) 😂
Agreed. I have 2 dogs but compared to my REAL family, they might as well be house plants in an emergency.
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