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why I will never become a father [tkXP8kw71xs]

2022-12-23 · 11 min

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  1. So as many of you may know, me and my

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  2. girlfriend have been trying to get

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  3. pregnant for basically since the beginning

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  4. that we got together, which was about 2

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  5. months ago. And it has come to my sad

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  6. conclusion that I probably am in fact

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  7. infertile. I didn't have solid proof or

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  8. concrete evidence for this apart from a

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  9. few ex-relationships where we didn't use

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  10. rubber duckies and there were no babies to

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  11. be found even after several months of

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  12. copulation. And me and my girlfriend, we

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  13. haven't done any kind of contraceptive or

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  14. protective measures. We don't use any kind

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  15. of protection apart from the first time on

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  16. the first night. But since then, we've

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  17. been together for 2 months, and after 2

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  18. months, there's still no babies.

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  19. Otherwise, I would have made a video

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  20. announcing that we are pregnant. So

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  21. obviously she's not pregnant, and she has

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  22. in fact just finished her second

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  23. menstruation cycle, which means that she

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  24. has no babies because obviously when you

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  25. get pregnant, your period doesn't come

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  26. again. Now, I haven't been officially

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  27. diagnosed. I haven't gone to a hospital or

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  28. clinic to get officially tested. I have

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  29. done a home kit where you test it yourself

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  30. by putting it into a little compartment

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  31. thing, leaving it overnight, and then it

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  32. has color-coded indications telling you if

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  33. your swimmers are very active, mildly

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  34. active, or just completely inactive. And

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  35. the color code works this way: so super

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  36. active would have been very dark purple,

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  37. and then mildly active would just be a

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  38. normal kind of purple, slightly faded,

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  39. and then not very active would be a very

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  40. faded purple, and then not active at all

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  41. would just be no purple at all. And my

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  42. test results came back as purple— not dark

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  43. deep purple, but not super faded purple.

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  44. It was like in the middle, slightly purple

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  45. and just slightly faded, which means my

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  46. swimmers are not completely inactive.

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  47. They're not super active either, but they

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  48. are showing signs of activity. So I don't

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  49. know why I don't seem to be able to

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  50. impregnate anyone for some reason. None of

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  51. my exes got impregnated either. I don't

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  52. know if it's because she's too old. She is

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  53. in her mid-30s. So she is getting to that

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  54. age where fertility rates do start to

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  55. plummet. But I've been with younger

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  56. girlfriends. For example, my previous

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  57. girlfriend was only 26 or 27, 5 years

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  58. younger than me. So she had no excuse not

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  59. to be able to bear children. And we were

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  60. together for like 9 months and we were

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  61. doing it at least once or twice every day.

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  62. So we did it probably at least over a

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  63. 9-month time span, probably hundreds of

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  64. times unprotected. And no babies there

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  65. either. So the problem must be with me.

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  66. And I don't really know how to feel about

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  67. this. The idea of never being able to have

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  68. my own family, never being able to

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  69. experience the joy of being a father and

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  70. raising children has a weird effect on my

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  71. emotions. In a way, I feel a bit relieved

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  72. because obviously I'm not ready to be a

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  73. dad right now. I'm not emotionally mature

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  74. enough. I don't make enough money. And I'm

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  75. probably not in the right space in my life

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  76. to be able to become a father and maintain

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  77. a family, be responsible over other

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  78. people's lives. But I thought it would be

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  79. nice to think in the future, maybe at one

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  80. point, at some point, maybe in my 40s or

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  81. 50s, I will reach a point where I make

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  82. enough money and I am mature enough to

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  83. become the head of a family. But it seems

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  84. like getting a girlfriend and getting a

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  85. willing woman to be the mother of my child

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  86. isn't the biggest problem because I've had

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  87. girlfriends and I don't really struggle to

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  88. find a girlfriend. Maybe it would take me

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  89. a year to get a new girlfriend, maybe less

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  90. than a year to get a new girlfriend if I'm

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  91. lucky. But that's not the problem. The

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  92. problem isn't getting the girlfriend. The

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  93. problem is that I'm not even physically or

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  94. biologically capable of making children.

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  95. And it's really strange. I don't really

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  96. know exactly why this is. I've got

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  97. suspicions. Number one suspicion is

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  98. because of a certain disease that I picked

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  99. up from an ex back in 2014. That could be

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  100. the reason why I am infertile. So if you

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  101. don't know the story, I'll just recap the

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  102. story quickly. Basically, in 2014, I dated

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  103. a Japanese woman for about 3 months. And

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  104. before we got together, she had some fun

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  105. in a nightclub with another guy and they

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  106. didn't use rubber duckies and she got

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  107. infected with a certain STD that begins a

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  108. C called chlamydia. She passed it on to

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  109. me, and I didn't get it treated for a few

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  110. weeks because in the beginning I didn't

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  111. really think it was anything serious.

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  112. Actually, in the beginning I didn't even

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  113. know what it was. I remember just feeling

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  114. a weird sensation when I peed. It was kind

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  115. of like it was burning or someone was

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  116. pinching my you-know-what, and it was

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  117. uncomfortable to pee. But I thought,

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  118. okay, it's just like a bladder infection,

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  119. maybe it would go away in a while. It

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  120. didn't go away and it started to get very

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  121. painful when I peed. And not only was it

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  122. painful, I started to get swellings like

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  123. inflammation in my elbow and inflammation

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  124. on my knee where it would just swell up

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  125. and I couldn't actually bend my arm

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  126. properly. It would just be swollen so I

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  127. couldn't bend it and my knee was unable to

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  128. bend. And it was really weird. I started

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  129. to get other pains around my groin area

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  130. and that was the point where we thought

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  131. Maybe we should get checked out because my

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  132. girlfriend at the time was also having

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  133. pain. She would wake up in the middle of

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  134. the night and start screaming in pain. So

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  135. at that point, after a few weeks or nearly

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  136. a month of being infected untreated, she

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  137. decided to go and get checked out. And the

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  138. doctor said that he thinks we both have

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  139. some kind of STD. So we decided to book

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  140. ourselves into a you know what clinic and

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  141. we got tested, blood tests, urine tests,

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  142. and came back that we were positive for

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  143. chlamydia. And when I googled what are the

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  144. effects of having untreated treated

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  145. chlamydia, and it's said that women may

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  146. become infertile. It might have an effect

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  147. on the ovaries and the canals and eggs.

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  148. So I don't really think it's going to

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  149. affect me, but it seems like it also makes

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  150. men infertile in a few cases. And since

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  151. I was untreated for such a long time, I

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  152. reckon that could be the reason why I

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  153. can't have babies. Because before getting

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  154. chlamydia, I did have a few girlfriends,

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  155. but we were always very careful with

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  156. things like rubber duckies and putting out

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  157. and not finishing inside. So before

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  158. chlamydia, I never really had experiences

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  159. where I was trying to get a girl pregnant.

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  160. So for that reason, it's kind of difficult

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  161. to compare the effects, the outcomes

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  162. before and after getting chlamydia,

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  163. because I only had about— I think I only

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  164. had 2 girlfriends before the chlamydia

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  165. girlfriend. It was only after about 2017

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  166. that I found out how to get loads of

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  167. girlfriends and become very active with my

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  168. man drive. Apart from that, I don't really

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  169. know why, what reason I would have to not

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  170. be able to create babies. I don't really

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  171. think there's any hereditary problem or

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  172. any kind of physical problem with my body.

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  173. My body is all perfectly functioning. But

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  174. I have seen stories where men and women or

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  175. man and wife have been trying to have kids

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  176. and for some reason they just cannot do

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  177. it. For example, in Friends, Chandler and

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  178. Monica, they try to have kids and they

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  179. just couldn't do it. And they went to a

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  180. clinic and the doctor said that Chandler's

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  181. you-know-whats are too timid and too weak,

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  182. and Monica's you-know-whats is too hostile

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  183. of an environment. And maybe I'm the same

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  184. because personality-wise I am kind of

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  185. timid and weak. Maybe my you-know-whats

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  186. are similar and they just, they try to get

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  187. in and then they just kind of give up

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  188. because they're too lazy or something. So

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  189. when me and my girlfriend got together the

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  190. first time, we didn't use you-know-whats.

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  191. She was a bit worried, as any woman would

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  192. be or should be. And she was like, aren't

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  193. you worried that we might end up getting

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  194. pregnant? And I jokingly said, not really,

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  195. because maybe I'm infertile. Hehe. And she

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  196. thought I was just joking, messing around.

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  197. And she's like, are you really infertile?

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  198. How do you know? And I just said, because

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  199. I never had a kid before. So 2 months

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  200. later, I think she finally believes me

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  201. that she's— she said that Maybe I think

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  202. you are actually infertile. And I said,

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  203. well, I told you so. Now I'm worried that

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  204. she might dump me because I guess I've

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  205. proven to her that I am infertile.

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  206. There's no way a man and woman can be

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  207. sleeping together for over 2 months and

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  208. there's no babies. Sometimes, you know,

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  209. accidents happen and girls get pregnant

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  210. just from one time. So it's kind of silly

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  211. that we could have been doing it for

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  212. hundreds of times and this no pregnancy.

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  213. There must be something wrong. And I'm

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  214. wondering if she's really serious about

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  215. having kids because she has said that she

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  216. would like to have kids at least a few

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  217. times in her life before she gets too old.

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  218. And it seems like she does want to be a

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  219. mother and she would like to have a

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  220. family. And I'm wondering if she would

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  221. actually dump me if I prove to her that

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  222. I'm not capable of having kids. Women

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  223. don't have a lot of time. They have a

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  224. biological clock ticking down. If they're

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  225. in their 20s, sure, they can mess about

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  226. and have fun, but really when they're in

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  227. their mid-20s, they need to start thinking

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  228. about settling down, finding a good guy to

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  229. make a family with. If they're really

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  230. serious about making a family, they have

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  231. until the end of their 20s to really take

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  232. it seriously. By the time they've gone

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  233. past their mid-30s, the clock is really

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  234. ticking. You don't really have a lot of

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  235. time left. If you reach your 40s and you

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  236. still haven't found a guy to start a

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  237. family with, the chances of you actually

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  238. becoming a mother and starting a family

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  239. basically go down to like 2%. So if she's

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  240. serious about becoming a mother and having

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  241. a family of her own, is it really wise to

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  242. be wasting her last precious few years of

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  243. her 30s with me? It'd be better off if we

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  244. just break it off and she finds a guy who

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  245. actually has working you-know-whats

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  246. instead of spending like 2, 3, 4 years

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  247. with me, and then she gets to 40 and then

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  248. it doesn't really work out with us and

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  249. there's still no babies between us, and

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  250. then she's got to start the whole process

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  251. again of dating and looking for a new guy.

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  252. By the time she finds a new boyfriend,

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  253. she'll be like 40-something, 41, 42.

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  254. That's too late. I know there are women

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  255. who are in their 40s and 50s and even 60s

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  256. who have had kids and were able to get

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  257. pregnant, and it is technically possible

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  258. using science and technology, but it's

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  259. kind of risky when you have a kid in your

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  260. 40s or 50s. The chances of the kid having

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  261. some kind of illness or disease, stuff

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  262. like Down syndrome or deformities when

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  263. it's born, significantly increase.

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  264. And it's very hard to, to have a healthy

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  265. baby the older you get as a woman. Now,

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  266. as a man, I could have a kid when I'm 50

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  267. or 60. Well, if my sperm worked. If I was

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  268. going to impregnate a woman at 50 or 60,

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  269. it doesn't really make any difference

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  270. because I'm just providing the sperm. She

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  271. has to provide the body that the baby

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  272. grows in, and the woman has to be strong

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  273. and mentally active and mentally healthy

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  274. and fit to be able to give birth and raise

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  275. a kid. You don't want to be like 50 years

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  276. old when your kid is a 2-year-old. By the

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  277. time you're 50, you want your kid to be

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  278. like 30 or 40. By the time you're 40, you

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  279. want to have at least a teenage kid or a

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  280. 20-year-old kid. You really got to start

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  281. this at an early age as a woman if you're

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  282. serious about having a family. I guess my

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  283. girlfriend didn't really prioritize having

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  284. a family when she was younger, and she

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  285. prioritized things like studying and

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  286. trying to get a good job. Yeah, I do

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  287. wonder what her thoughts are on the idea

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  288. of us never being able to have our own

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  289. kids. Does she still want to continue with

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  290. me? Would she want to end things if she

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  291. knows there's no future chances or

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  292. possibilities of us becoming parents? I

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  293. guess we'll have to find out.

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