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Re: 4's and children
Re: 4's and children
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Posted by Copperhead on July 24, 1998 at 01:17:34:
In Reply to: 4's and children posted by soleil on July 22, 1998 at 22:46:58:
I can't help but comment how you remind me of a friend - my best (only?) platonic female friend, whom I've known for about ten years. She too was a 4w5 with the dream of being artist. She was beautiful, but usually alone. She also had a minor ailment which I thought she overstated. Early on she told me that she never wanted to have children. Suddenly about two years ago (at age 36) she started having having Fourish regrets about not marrying and having children. She said she felt that she had wasted her life. Well like the Romans said "be careful what you wish for - you might get it", she finally found her true love. Really. They were married about six months ago. I recently visited the two of them. I discovered that the happiness which she radiated six months ago was still there. It was odd to speak with her and not sense the Fourish aura of melancholia and tragedy to which I had been so accustomed. I also discovered an interesting development: she was a couple months pregnant! Well this story is hardly over - it remains to be seen how my 4w5 friend will cope with the *reality* of childrearing (assuming that, as I pray, all goes well at age 38). Perhaps Fourish women are doomed to regret life whether they choose to have children or not. Somehow, I doubt it. As a confirmed Five, it has been my general observation that the happiest women are mothers, period. Nothing can replace the sacredness of motherhood, and nothing can compare to it in the male half of the species. Well I fervently hope that none of this influences you to be rash and to do something which you regret later. I also hope that you do not resent the presumptuousness of my male commentary; I only wished to describe one life which sounds similar to yours. I wish you all the best in whatever path you take. Very respectfully, Copperhead
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