As someone with a kid... I agree 100% w/ this. It's like when old people say "youth is wasted on the young"

Don't you dare waste your freedom! Don't answer your (relative) lack of responsibility with arbitrary and self imposed limits. Call in sick and fuck off to the mountains on a Wednesday and spark a J. Just because I can't doesn't mean I don't desperately want that for you.

This is exactly it. Except, I had to go to therapy first. Vibes are more and more on point each ~~day~~ week or so

Yes! Pour one out for your homies. By pour one out I mean drink it.

As a childless couple: we do the kind of stuff one normally does with kids, but for ourselves.

Dino parks, zoos, science museums, castles.

And we get to enjoy it at times when other people have kids in school and outside of school holidays.

Thank you for your service and understanding

This has a certain amount of divorced guy "I get to sleep in a racecar bed" energy to it.

We live on, through you!

Somebody's gotta do it.

We're not childless, we're child-free. We made the decision early in our relationship to not have any children.