Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's incredibly stressful when the person you love is having a child.
Having children with someone is the real bond.
When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
I sometimes think love is God's way of hoodwinking people into having kids. You fall in love, and all that passion goes into procreating and wanting children.
I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.
The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones we've dealt with who were actually pregnant, anyway.
The thing is, when you have a child with someone, like it or not, you're going to have to have a continuing relationship with them.
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?