I’ll go first: “You have to have children when you’re young,” told to me when I was in my late 20s, with no desire to ever have kids, and no means to support them, by someone divorced multiple times with at least one adult child who does not speak to them.

Also: Responding to “How do I deal with this problem?” questions with “Oh, don’t worry about it, it’s enough that you’re even thinking about it!”

  • Frater Mus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    What is the most unhelpful advice you have received?

    • "They’re your family so you have to maintain a relationship with them’
    • “man up”
    • attend church