Topic: Has being a parent changed your personality?
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Fri 03/23/18 03:11 AM
So, are you a better or a worse person or simply unchanged because of it?

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Fri 03/23/18 08:51 AM
Changed me for the better.
From hellraiser to a responsible father overnight.

Ok the hellraiser bit is a slight exaggeration.

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Fri 03/23/18 08:54 AM
Has being a parent changed your personality?

Certainly

So, are you a better or a worse person or simply unchanged because of it?

I really don't think of myself in those terms.
I am neither and both.
The responsibility of raising a family certainly changed me.
Plus, after they're grown and out of the house it changed me even further.

I do retain qualities I had before children and now I also retain qualities that I had while I was raising them.
I will always be a parent/grandparent, till I die. I will also always be me until I die.

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Sat 03/24/18 02:34 PM
Edited by Walker001951 on Sat 03/24/18 02:39 PM
For myself, call me old fashioned , but why should humans be any different to the flowers and the animals and the trees, so, holding my first born in my arms, I suddenly found the answer to the age old question, why do I exist........that knowledge should have made me a better person.....