maybe everyone is not going to fit that normal profile of life. why do you have to have a wife 2 kids and a dog?

Your life is what you choose it to be. It may not fit the stereotype necessarily but if it suits you then it is normal for you!

What IS normal? I hope I don't have to have a wife, 2 kids and a dog to be considered normal!

I'm abbie normal.

Can I skip the wife and kids, and just have the dog?

Well I have the two kids and a dog so does that make me 3/4 normal?

<~~~~~2 kids, 2 dogs.....no wife!!!!!

I have an ex-wife...three kids...and a dog. Does that make me an over-achiever in normalcy?

Well...that would be normal...for a woman...in San Fransisco....lol

Did I become abnormal when I got divorced?

Normal is SO over rated.

You forgot the white picket fence.

I want a husband, 3 kids, one dog, and maybe a cat. Plus a home with a white picket fence.

Those that don't fit that normal profile of life will just have to find someone besides me.

Nah. Didn't you hear that CA passed a prop that prevents gay marriage?

Have 1 kid, no dogs anymore, and traded the wife in for sanity....I'll take that over normal anyday...normal sucks and is boring

I've been wondering about this for a very long time myself.

Look, I love dogs -- all kinds of dogs. All kinds of animals, really. OK, I'm not crazy about scorpions or crocodiles, but you know.

BUT -- I knew from about age 21 or so, that I was never going to want kids. Period. The end.

And people act as if I've peed in their chili mac when I tell them this. "WHAT? You don't want kids?"

No. I dated a few older, divorced women with kids when I was younger. I saw all I needed to see. It's not for me.

"Don't you want someone to carry on the family name?" No, why should that matter? It's a bunch of letters, symbolizing phonetic sounds in a particular sequence. Why should I care? When I'm dead, I'm dead, anyway, what's the difference?

"You would make such a great parent." No I wouldn't. I have a short attention span, I'm self-absorbed, I can't stand the sound of a screaming baby, and my whole concept of "fatherhood" is based on Sheriff Taylor from the Andy Griffith Show. Not sure that's sufficient.

"Everybody should have kids." No they shouldn't. Manson? Hitler? Liberace? Senator Larry Craig? I mean, really....

"Kids are a gift from God." I'm an atheist, please point me to the Returns Desk.

Look, I have never gotten anyone pregnant and I never will. That's partly by chance and partly by choice. But it is what it is.

Childfree people are not soulless monsters trying to undermine the fabric of American parenthood. We just don't see the point in procreating.

As for marriage -- been there, done that, disaster, BOOM, no thank you, never again.

But the dog -- now that I can live with....

Chasing fantasies seems to be a growing hobby I guess.

i want kids, animals, and a sexy sexy man to come home to everyday.

me too.........that would be scary!

Prefer the terms ordinary or regular.