From a pretty early age I decided I didn't want to get married or have kids cuz both my parents seemed utterly miserable. For a long time I found it weird anyone wanted to do it at all, why would you want to be trapped with someone you hate who you get into screaming arguments all the time?

And it's not just me, you see a lot of jokes online about people like playing that one scene from Marriage Story while playing old N64 games for nostalgia.

I think the experience of seeing our own parents be so miserable maybe soured a lot of us on starting families.

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[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

man, I remember going to the beach one time and me and my sister sat in the living room while my parents fought in the bedroom for the whole weekend. Great lets just stay up here in the condo and not go to the freakin beach at all.

[–] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago

God my mom loved having random crashouts at my dad on vacation.

Don't get me wrong my dad can be an asshole too but I think in her younger years my mom was one of those people who genuinely gets a rush out of drama and conflict and would just find excuses to get into fights about the most random bullshit.