Why Do You Think a Family is a Burden?

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[crescentmoon]

"all the choice -which i doubt you have anyways (...)" Man's called them maidenless in such a profound way

[UncleRicosCamper]

I've had a lot of amazing accomplishments in my life but my biggest achievement will always be the family that I've created with my husband and our beautiful children. ❤

[michelorphey]

I got married at 19. Married 33 years, until her sudden death 8 years ago. Marital problems ? Yes. Money problems ? I was a working cowboy. Raised 2 great kids, built a ranching operation, worked 2 jobs. I’d do it all over again. Do it different if I knew better? Yep.

[michelleclark]

A life lived with that one partner and if you're lucky enough, blessed with children, is the most rewarding experience. Don't fall for the latest "trend". Life gets pretty lonely when you're single at 60.
Dr Peterson, you are a voice that e world needs to listen to before it's too late. 🤗🇨🇦🙏

[brndxt]

I do recall a marketing research study done years ago that said customers tend to be less happy after they make a choice in circumstances where choices are plentiful.

For instance, when customers are given only three ice cream flavors, vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry, they tend to be happy with the choice made. Little buyer's remorse.

However, when they have dozens of flavors to choose from, many will have second thoughts and buyer's remorse on the flavor they have selected.

[desyxd]

I feel like I gave my husband’s life direction, through my own young standards and expectations.

He valued and respected me so much, he pursued me endlessly, but I wanted marriage and a family, and I wasn’t playing dating games, I took it seriously, so he worked to make it happen. I gave him that desire to succeed and reach goals. I was his motivation.

In doing that, he gave my own life direction and purpose, in giving me a home to tend to and children to raise.

We balance one another, and give the other purpose.

Now we both have an intertwined purpose in our new world we’ve created.

[ezilyyi]

"Some Son's Never Fully Grow Up Until Their Fathers Funeral" ... 100%

[GrabinUrloot]

My alcoholic manipulative Mom left my Dad for his best friend then used the courts to keep my sister and I away from him so she could get child support.

TV and video games raised me. I got in contact with my Dad when I got older and he's the only family I talk to now. He used to ask me when he'd get grandkids and I told him that I don't want any because I don't want to end up like him. He's on marriage number 3 and has called me in tears with suicidal intentions more then once.

I never had the luxury of seeing what a good, happy marriage looks like. I'm 40 and trying to heal through Jesus. I'm content being with animals for company. It has nothing to do with 'freedom'. The system is broken.

[tessa]

I have had a blessed and awesome adventurous life before I met the love of my life at 36. We have 4 children now, and that is my greatest achievement.

[JohnDoe-xkdv]

Politely Jordan, I don't think family in itself is a burden. But growing up in poverty or with an abusive family environment, can leave life long scars.

Education saved me, and I was blessed I stumbled on the right mentors at the right moment. Otherwise...psych ward admission, and maybe self deletion.

Not all of us have resources man.

[chipcook]

"Maybe even less than one partner." Suddenly, my day brightened right up.

[maryj]

I see some people here going nuts in the comments, saying that because some families have a horrible life, family life shouldn't be pursued. That doesn't make any sense. No family= no you.
Life has always been horrible and precarious for us humans since day 1. But people got tough and had kids. And HERE WE ARE TODAY.
Death and suffering everywhere were never enough to make people think they should stop having families. Until today, when some lab techs sell us tools to stop conception, so we think we have an alternative, that we don't have to share the same fight, the hard work and dedication that literally brought us until today. You are physically here because so many before you DID NOT think the way you do.
Is family burdensome? Yes. So is life. Are they both worth our sweat and tears? HECK YES. You are worth it. Do not insult your very origins.
Jordan Peterson is not talking about here and now. He knows all about the world's horrors, he had kids in therapy, he's not stupid. But he's highlighting how we are MADE to overcome the world's horrors, not by caving in (as people think in 1st world countries think they can do) but by TRYING harder and doing BETTER.

If you have a child, you'll see.
I am a true a*hole. But I had a kid and realised I was an a*hole. But also that I was ready to grow the heck up and do anything in my power to make a better world for HIM. That's the power of unconditional love that we don't have, but kids do.
Welcome to real life: you don't know everything and yes, there's more to life's horror. To quote Jordan Peterson, there's more to you than the horror inside you.

[martinvho]

A good family will lift you up, a bad one will drag you down. I fully respect men not willing to take the chance, but at the same time not taking that risk will get you stuck where you are right now, and over time, this life you have and being on your own will get boring.

[TakoyakiStore]

I've been watching some tribal Navajo stories over the last year. What struck me is that one of their definitions of evil is simply that which tries to break up the family. When I heard that my jaw dropped to the floor in reflection. There's a sliver of that in just about every culture over 200 years old.

[kieferonline]

I am married and have two children. Daily life is busy and tiring but is also profoundly meaningful. I feel that everything I do to support my family and guide my children is the most important thing I can possibly be doing.

[Chtlally]

There seems to be a societal amnesia regarding privileges, rights and responsibilities.
Freedom has no value if there is no privilege. Rights and Privilege cannot be attained without responsibility.
A man must have a sense of duty, that starts with family.

[garywagner]

Having a family is not for everyone. If you are fond of short-term, shallow relationships, please don’t get married. If you don’t like children, please don’t have any. If you are afraid of everything, even the weather, please stay single. If you are abusive, dependent on chemicals, or simply an arsehole, don’t start a family. There are far too many people out there who should have stayed lonely and alone, but didn’t, so generations paid the price. Families are hard work. If you are lazy, stupid, selfish, and self-absorbed, stick to your own company. The world will thank you.

[libertasinfinitum]

We need an open forum to discuss the challenges put forth by his outstanding mind.

I consider myself contemplative. I try to discern as much as I can. I thought I knew what I was doing as a young punk.

I didn't pursue a family. I had contempt for our wars and our ways. Why would I subject someone I love more than myself to potential and probable suffering?

I was blessed with a family, not of my own blood. I have even more contempt over our wars and our ways.

I've learned about the experiments conducted on the poor and 3rd world countries. I've learned about the thousands of years of conquest and slavery. I've learned about the food supply and manipulative marketing to children. I've learned about the human trafficking, slave labor, and sanctioned X abuse of children.

Is it really wrong to spare a child from these conflicts?

[WhiteSox]

At 56 I realised I spent my whole life caring about and thinking of others first. I gave so much of myself I forgot about me. With whatever time I have left I’m going to put myself first. With all due respect the world can go fxxk itself.

[jonnyniemela]

I am so grateful for the humbling wisdom and knowledge this man has to offer. Grateful for his amazing way to put words on my existential struggles. Helping me doing the right thing and find meaning through that in life.