Monday, July 26, 2010

Old Enough For That But Not This? O_o

I was having a conversation with a friend of mine the other day, and we were discussing men and responsibilities. A mutual friend of ours, who shall remain nameless, put on his fb status that he was looking for a woman, a good woman, not a little girl who could do all this stuff for him. And someone comments on his status and tells him, that he is still young, that he doesn't have to rush to settle down. Ummm excuse me ma'am, he is currently 27 years old, going on 28! He is damn near 30 and you are telling him that he is too young to settle down? So when do you suggest he settle down and become a real man?
What kills me, is that alot of people, are ENABLERS! People are VERY quick to tell someone that they are way too young to be settling down....but wait, they are old enough to have a child tho! What I do not understand, is that these same men who are old enough to be a father, but not enough to be a man, settle down and be in a committed relationship? Soooo he's old enough to be someones father but NOT some one's husband? I do not understand that logic at all!
Your life does not end after you get into a marriage or a committed relationship! In fact, you enjoy life even more because you don't have to deal with the BS people tell you when are you out in the field "dating" or "talking to someone".
I'm def NOT trying to get down or bash anyone who has children at any age, it just slightly annoys me when people enable these men like this!
So if we were to talk the example I opened up with, this man is 27 years old. When you meet someone, you want to spend time at least a year or two with them before you realize that they are the person you want to spend the rest of your life with. So lets say he's 29 now, and the couple is engaged. It takes about 6 months to a year to plan a big, successful wedding, which every woman usually wants. So now he's 30. That's fine. But he wants time with his wife before they start having children. So now he's 33 years old, having his first child. The wife doesn't want the children back to back, so the couple agrees to space the children out by three years, and the husband wants three or four children. So this man is having his fourth child at about 42! That is trying to do alot. Raising a newborn at 42 years old esp if both the husband and wife are still working. I am not saying it cannot be done, because it can. That's just alot!
Most people want to retire around that age, so that they can enjoy time with their children out of the house (by that time). And enjoy time to themselves, travel a little, before they settle down into old age and their body starts going through the middle age changes.
Maybe some people want to live their life like that. I know I don't. I do not still want to be having children into my forties! That is too risky and too much to deal with! I want to be wrapping up to retire at about 48, not having someone under 10 years old still living in my house! Maybe that's just me.
All Im saying, please do not tell a young man that he is old enough to be a father between the ages of 16 and 27, but tell him he is too young to be in a committed relationship, or to be some one's husband! That's ass backwards to me! A child is ALOT more responsibility than being in a relationship with another adult!
If you are old enough for one, you should be enough for both, not just one and not the other!

1 comment:

  1. Granted this we have discussed this between the two of us NUMEROUS times. I could not agree with you more on the subject matter.As a matter of fact, people WHO ARE NOT IN committed/martial relationships should not be having children in the first place. Love it.
    Regards,
    MarisESQ

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