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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/ManateePub on 2023-09-05 00:35:35.
Maybe I should have been more tactful or understanding. But I wasn’t. And I don’t feel particularly bad about it. I knew that dating again after my LTR would be challenging, but I didn’t expect to hear these pathetic, rehearsed routines that sound like a testosterone-deficient AI chatbot.
I’ve known this guy slightly for several years. We’re in sort of adjacent friend groups, and he’s nice-looking in a way that isn’t too intimidating. He seemed like a safe, friendly option…right up until he immediately started babbling about wanting children, fishing, his “values,” family, babies, and fishing. Also fishing. I mentioned that I didn’t have any children, and his response was: “Well, you could if you wanted to…right? Like, there’s nothing physically stopping you…?”
My response (see post title) didn’t even phase him, and I just quietly filed him away as someone I had to tolerate until I could somehow excuse myself. Which I did with all haste.
There is nothing—literally nothing—that kills attraction faster than opening a date with a recruiting pitch for a woman’s uterus. You want to have a family? That’s nice. I want a new inkjet printer and an electric car that doesn’t need to recharge.
What really grinds my gears is that I KNOW there’s some grimy “dating coach” out there, as usual, who’s telling men that talking about babies makes our ovaries light up like Christmas trees for first-date sex. It’s insulting, and I’d almost rather a guy respectfully ask for sex on a first date. I really, really hope it gets better than this.