Reply #8: Marriage doesn't really affect most people I know

[WildEyedLiberal]

If they were cool before, they seem cool after.

Kids, OTOH... it's like the individual disappears, to forever be known henceforth as "mommy" for the rest of her life. It's honestly really sad to me.

Please don't flame me, parents, I'm not saying this happens to everyone, and honestly, there ARE some people in life who really were born to be nurturing parents (fortunately for me my mother is one of them)... but I've seen way too many beautiful individual people disappear into a void of Dora the Explorer, Happy Meals, and other suffocating trappings of parenthood. That kind of life honestly depresses the hell out of me and reminds me why I don't ever want to have kids.