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azurelunatic) wrote2009-10-26 03:33 pm
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Writer's Block: Ohhh, baby
If your best friend asked you OR your partner to help you conceive a child, would you consider it? How do you think it would affect your friendship and your relationship? Submitted By View 958 Answers |
Since I first saw this, I've been trying to imagine a scenario where a theoretical* best friend would come up to me and a theoretical male partner and say, "Hey, I hear you've been trying to get her knocked up; anything I can do to help you?"
That could indeed cause some weirdness.
*I mean, I have a best friend already, but attempting to imagine him saying this is to laugh hysterically.
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The question posted just sounds really creepy.
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That's the problem with accepting suggestions from the audience. Every now and then, nonsense is going to slip through.
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And it would really depend on which best friend.
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Watch out, feeling tangenty
I do have a friend who'd like a kid but who's unlikely to get knocked up without a lot of work (I think this is maybe the best and worst thing about gay sex; no babies, ever). Two other male friends have been willing to at least consider acting as donors for her, so long as they were both clear on the terms of the agreement, and knew each other well enough to think she'd be a good mother. I was surprised how easily they'd consider the idea.
About my husband being a sperm donor? Not so sure. I'd definitely want any potential mother to know his family background well enough to know what she was getting into, and I'd want to know that it wouldn't fuck with his head too much, which would probably rule it out entirely.
Probably wouldn't accept help this way, since I was never rabid about having kids. I'd definitely take donor milk if needed, though.
Re: Watch out, feeling tangenty
I am highly uncertain about the whole pregnancy thing, particularly given that if you're already crazy, it will probably make you crazier.
I have a somewhat advanced lack of desire to become crazier.
Re: Watch out, feeling tangenty
Seriously, that's why I thought my brainpan might work better on birth control pills, because they mildly simulate pregnancy to convince your body not to loose any more eggs. However, the pills made me more crazy. Pregnancy, on the other hand, always stabilized my mood *greatly*.
YMMV, of course, since we're different kinds of crazy. I started to say "vastly different", but that's really not quite so true. I think it's a lot the same kind of crazy, just differently structured.
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As for somebody wanting my hubby to be their baby's daddy? Well, I can understand that he is a damned fine specimen. *giggle* I'm poly; I wouldn't care if they did it the natural way. But I think he'd worry way too much about how they were raising "his" kid to go through with it.
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