Bailey, 17,  just came home from a sleepover. She spent the night with a teenage friend who is young mother with a 6-week-old baby. As she came in the door she said, “I’m exhausted and I’m never having kids.” 
I said, “Well, I do hope that you wait, but they don’t cry forever.” And, if you are a parent, you know that they don’t, although they do develop even more challenging behaviors so that at a certain point (the teenage years, for instance), you look back on memories of a crying infant and think of them as The Good Ol’ Days.

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“The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it’s not without doubt but in spite of doubt.” — Rollo May
Fascinating to think about, yeah? I hope this will help you make sense of some things in this whole love and relationships thingie. It sure prodded me to think.