Or vice versa.

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      Instead of ‘or vice versa’, I originally had ‘or both’. But yeah, this is accurate

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    Who gives a fuck about whether or not you were planned? It literally makes no difference whatsoever.

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    A mother of six told me: “We always wanted to have four children. But after the third we had the twins. And the sixth was a complete accident.”

    While said sixth child was in the room with us.

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      Either way. They either were both not planned, both were or one might not have been. Not many people say, I can’t wait, I hope I have twins. There are some tho, I went to high school with someone where twins ran in the family and they were excited to also have two different sets of them. But most of the time you are planning for one, and you are surprised when there are two in the womb. This should be a good thing but children would still try to guess and could fight about it, they can fight about anything. And sometimes names are picked out before even trying to have kids. One for a boy and one for a girl etc. unfortunately, it is the break up of the fight that perplexes me. “You were both planned/unplanned” gets nowhere. When someone starts trying there is no guarantee either way what will happen. What do you say? Sorry I wish I spoke Español.

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    There is a simple solution. From a young age you introduce them to the idea that actually it doesn’t matter and that they need to find happiness from within, because you really never wanted either of them and as soon as legally possible the only happiness they will have is from within.

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      Less to do with birth order and more to do with wanting to have one and ending up with two, or three…or eight. But they might still fight over who was. Siblings can be cruel.

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      Mom: “Hey Brock, did you bring your brother, Brick home from school?”

      Brock: “Can’t we send him somewhere?”

      Mom: Brock!!!

      (In all honesty, this was not my idea, just a thought that popped into my head after seeing something random about it.)