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Healing Generational Trauma By Refusing To Birth Any More Generations?
“We just want to peacefully live out the rest of our existence without the kind of awareness that makes us wonder if we are being good parents by being the complete opposite of our parents!”
Millennials and Gen Z zoomers, as well as a few individuals belonging to the Gen X crowd, are healing generational trauma and curses by making the informed decision to be childfree and never birth any more generations.
Sure, there are those amongst these three groups who decide they want to be parents, and they are taking a more calculated and intuitive approach to parenting, so not to intentionally or unintentionally cause emotional harm on their children that eventually must be rectified by intense therapy; the same process they themselves had to undergo due to their own misinformed parents.
But the remainder of us don’t want anything to do with that shit. We just want to peacefully live out the rest of our existence without the kind of awareness that makes us wonder if we are being good parents by being the complete opposite of our parents!
My mother was very clear about how she selfishly decided to bring me into this world, mainly to heal her nonexistent, emotionally-distant relationship with her father. She wanted a best friend in my late grandfather, so as…
