New town, made more friends in person, and have gotten laid more times, with people I met out and about.

But I've also made a couple of friends and gotten laid a few times from apps. Worth the $x a month, it's less than one ticket to a good party or an evening's worth of drinks at karaoke, and pays off at a similar rate per dollar, just more slowly.

(Unless you're just looking for mediocre fumbling with someone who only cares about getting their dick off, then apps got ya)

You can still get lucky. I met my wife on Okcupid, but there was a ton of disappointment before then.

I don't see how that's too relevant. The comic isn't about having kids per se. It's about just giving up kids you've already had, which is quite different.

Women want honesty until they're asked to put their kids up for adoption. Smh

It's not real, bro. The bad man can't hurt you

So how long have you lived in Baltimore?

Yep I'm selfish with my time. I like doing anything I want. I just won't have a care taker when I'm old (but I also am not an ass that would want a child to do that anyway, seems evil)

I'll gladly donate money to help out the unhoused, and Foss projects though! Because with no kids you have money to donate to things like that.

I wouldn't give mine away, and enjoyed parenting more than any other job, but swear to God with every one of them I said that a parent should be provided with about 5 tranquilizer darts for each child when they are born, for the handful of situations that put you in danger of doing something you will regret. With each one, for me there were about 5 times I wished I could just toss a dart and pow! Kid falls down asleep.

When my kid was four and refusing to go to bed, he once stood at the top of the stairs, holding tight to the stair gate, looked me dead in the eye, and shit himself.

On the one hand I was impressed with the show of superiority, but on the other, I did briefly consider having him adopted.

So yeah, I get it.

Most days the kids are such beautiful creatures. They are learning, experimenting, cuddling, playing games with me... I wish I got to see more of them but I'm in office 5 days a week with a long commute, and we're all feeling it.

But every once in a a while there is the day where they smear an entire dresser with zinc cream and that shit takes ages to wash off. Or they piss on you the moment you remove them from the bath. Or they spend an hour fighting you about going to bed so you just throw them into their bedroom and use your body to block their door until they get too tired from banging it and screaming and pass out; really started to appreciate my Steam Deck after that.

You remember these events well because they don't happen often. You don't remember every time you cuddled watching a movie, worked on a project together, made food together, or felt proud of them, because that's pretty much every day.

I will add the caveat that this is for "normal" kids. I used to volunteer for a few groups for seriously disabled children and you didn't see too many couples at those events... Usually one parent wants to keep the child while the other says they cannot effectively raise them, and you can guess how that goes. Having spent a lot of time with those kids and seeing the damage families suffer because of it, I do not suggest taking on the challenge of serious disability unless you are able to secure substantial material assistance; it's far lonelier and harder than you can imagine.