First off, I'm a guy. I have a friend who... for lack of a better description, wants to get pregnant by any means necessary. She wants nothing more than to be a single mother. Yes, it's not that she wants to break it off with a bad b/f and raise a kid on her own, she wants to do EVERYTHING alone. I don't understand this. I tell her that being a single mother is EXTREMELY difficult (not that I'd know), but she doesn't even have a steady job. She has no useful college education (I think she dropped out before she finished.) I tell her she should TALK to people. Ask people how it really is. I tell her I'm worried about her life decision because she has a hard time taking care of pets...
She simply yells at me because "Pets are nothing like kids, you don't love pets."
Look, I'm not one to rain on someone's parade. If that's what she REALLY wants to do then so be it, but I just don't know how to get through to her that what she wants is....I can't even describe it. I tried telling her that she's going about it the wrong way, and at least try to find a good guy that's not into her for sex (she's... gorgeous to say the least.), but she just brushes it off saying she's tried and such.
I'm not (trying) to be sexist, but it's not often that someone wants to willingly go into something like this. I just want her to do more research, maybe talk to a support group or something. She just yells at me and hangs up the phone when I tell her that.
I just don't know what to do. I don't want her to make a mistake. (Yes I consider wanting to have a baby when you have no stable job a mistake. Argue with me if you want.)
For the record. She's 23, so no, she's not "running out of time."
She simply yells at me because "Pets are nothing like kids, you don't love pets."
Look, I'm not one to rain on someone's parade. If that's what she REALLY wants to do then so be it, but I just don't know how to get through to her that what she wants is....I can't even describe it. I tried telling her that she's going about it the wrong way, and at least try to find a good guy that's not into her for sex (she's... gorgeous to say the least.), but she just brushes it off saying she's tried and such.
I'm not (trying) to be sexist, but it's not often that someone wants to willingly go into something like this. I just want her to do more research, maybe talk to a support group or something. She just yells at me and hangs up the phone when I tell her that.
I just don't know what to do. I don't want her to make a mistake. (Yes I consider wanting to have a baby when you have no stable job a mistake. Argue with me if you want.)
For the record. She's 23, so no, she's not "running out of time."