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    What question do you get asked too often?

    Posts: 1,025 Member
    edited November 2024 in Chit-Chat
    For me, it is "Why don't you want kids?"

    Well, random stranger, let me explain how it is none of your business...

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      bago08 wrote: »
      why is your goatee grey but your hair isnt? Followed by.. You should shave the goatee
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      Chieflrg wrote: »
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      Hockey_Winger wrote: »
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      Yep, I got that one a lot. I finally shaved the one I had for 15ish years this summer. Oddly enough, I don't miss it.

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      jtexasflood wrote: »
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      That's why I usually just say I'm eating right and exercising. If they want more specifics, I gladly share it with them. I think there may be a stigma attached to counting calories. I know I had my own preconceived notions about it.

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      Joannah700 wrote: »
      "What are you?"

      Sooo many ways to respond.

      When I start simple - female, hungry, American...they typically roll their eyes, then say, "but what is your background? What's your ethnicity?"

      This.

      I get asked this quite often too because I have an exotic look apparently.
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      Glynn20 wrote: »
      Why do you run? (If you need to ask, you'll never understand the answer).

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      hearthemelody wrote: »
      For me, it is "Why don't you want kids?"

      Well, random stranger, let me explain how it is none of your business...

      I don't have kids (I am 42) and people assume it is because I don't want them and so I do get asked that. See, for me - I would love to have kids, I just can't. So yeah, that is an awful question to ask someone without kids. The fact that I can't have them is very painful and the question just brings all that up.

      And since I have lost weight I get a lot of questions about that - especially how much do I want to lose and how much do I want to weigh - sorry but that is none of anyone's business. I am looking to lose more than 100 lbs but I don't want people to know that - I carried it pretty well but seriously it seems obvious that I probably need to lose a lot. It is embarrassing - why do people ask that kind of stuff?
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      Misshodge64 wrote: »
      Why are you not married or when are you going to get a husband.

      Number 1

      This. I know they mean well, but just...sigh.

      Plus the "oh, you still have time" on the kid thing, usually after I've just said I don't want one. I love kids. Just don't want one of my own. Some people are confused by that.

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      sunburntgalaxy wrote: »
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      I don't have kids (I am 42) and people assume it is because I don't want them and so I do get asked that. See, for me - I would love to have kids, I just can't. So yeah, that is an awful question to ask someone without kids. The fact that I can't have them is very painful and the question just brings all that up.

      I am so sorry you get this. People just don't think sometimes.

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      sunburntgalaxy wrote: »
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      I don't have kids (I am 42) and people assume it is because I don't want them and so I do get asked that. See, for me - I would love to have kids, I just can't. So yeah, that is an awful question to ask someone without kids. The fact that I can't have them is very painful and the question just brings all that up.

      And since I have lost weight I get a lot of questions about that - especially how much do I want to lose and how much do I want to weigh - sorry but that is none of anyone's business. I am looking to lose more than 100 lbs but I don't want people to know that - I carried it pretty well but seriously it seems obvious that I probably need to lose a lot. It is embarrassing - why do people ask that kind of stuff?

      I, too, am sorry that this is such a painful topic for you. I cannot imagine wanting kids and not being able to have them. I read it suggested that I (not wanting kids) could just tell people that I could not have kids. I feel like that would be wrong on so many levels, not the least of which is that it would diminish your very real experiences and emotions.

      I wish you many good things.
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      tchell99 wrote: »
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      I am so sorry you get this. People just don't think sometimes.
      I have no husband cause I told them no.
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      Misshodge64 wrote: »
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      I have no husband cause I told them no.

      That comment was meant for Sunburnt, but I am sure that is true. Dodged a few bullets myself along the way. ;)
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