Thursday, March 27, 2008

With or Without?

Kids seems to separate people. The people With Kids and Without Kids. The people With Kids will talk incessantly about their rugrats - funny, disgusting, boring stories about their offspring. That's pretty much ALL we talk about. The people Without Kids will talk about about other adults, what they are doing or where they are going. The people With Kids then feel a little Without Kids envy. The people Without Kids are glad they are just visiting.

What spawned that observation? I had dinner with my two closest girlfriends last night. We haven't had dinner in quite a while. No baby, no husbands, just the girls… It was a refreshing change of scenery, however, I find myself nearly incapable of having a conversation that doesn't revolve around Dexter. It doesn't matter who I talk to, even Mr. Cobra, who gets loads of Dex talk, I can't seem to contribute to any other topic. I'm feeling like the cliché, "mom who won't shut up about the kid". The separation of the lives between the people With Kids and Without Kids, I have tried to ignore it, but I was naive in thinking that it was possible to continue on like nothing life changing has happened. It has, and it is all consuming. I'm sure it will get better, but right now I feel like a boring, one-sided, one-storied, person obsessed with something that is really only interesting to me. I guess that's why I write this blog. I can TRY to get it out of my system, but it is utterly impossible.