People of Reddit who genuinely dislike your own kids, when did you realize it and why?

The confirmation of me not wanting any kids came in three stages of realization, first is the pain of giving birth, even if I don't exactly know how babies are born, I know my body. How does something of a substantial size get out of my body via such a small hole? So your body has to break/tear somewhere and you don't have to tell me that it hurts. At that time it was before I was 20, and I still thought well every woman gives birth, when it comes it comes. When I got older I started to recognize that I have to raise them, that means sharing the money that I could have used on myself. I'll have to be honest, I probably will have to love the kids more than I love myself and I really doubt I would. Then when friends around me started to have kids I saw them change. Some are happy, some aren't, and their lives revolve around their kids. So in short, the pain, the money, and the time, I don't like kids enough to sacrifice all those to have kids. Kudos to those who do though, because of them we as a civilization can continue on.

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