{"id":1981,"date":"2023-12-23T16:10:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T16:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanessasdomain.com\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2023-12-23T16:10:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T16:10:29","slug":"toe-the-family-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanessasdomain.com\/?p=1981","title":{"rendered":"Toe the Family Line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do what thou whilt shall be the whole of the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I may have grown up assigned male, but I still felt the pressure to plan marriage and kids growing up anyway. Gotta carry on the family name they said. Well, that&#8217;s not gonna happen at this point. I&#8217;m already passed the point of no return in terms of having children biologically. If I was to decide to have a kid at some point I&#8217;d have to adopt or find a surrogate. I&#8217;m not at all interested in the later. Adoption is fine though since that was my plan even as far back as when I was still closeted and in denial. I don&#8217;t feel right brining a brand new life into this world when there&#8217;s so many in need of loving homes and caring parents. No judgement on those who do, this is just about me and my personal feelings. If I did adopt, I would adopt an older kid. Those are the ones who get adopted less so I&#8217;d like to make that dream come true for them in my limited capacity I must abide by in the life. Plus I don&#8217;t want to deal with that anxiety, drama, and exhaustion of raising a baby. A single puppy is handful enough I can&#8217;t imagine having to deal with a human baby. I do not need that much stress and anxiety added to my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In any case, my family name isn&#8217;t gonna be passed down no matter the circumstance since I&#8217;m not interested in trying to adopt without being married first, and when I get married my last name will change anyway. I&#8217;m aware that you don&#8217;t have to do it that way but that&#8217;s the done thing and I don&#8217;t want to subject myself to the level of dysphoria is I&#8217;d have for not doing that. Plus I just like the idea of sharing a last name with my future husband. I have considered changing my name to include Kindell as an additional middle name so I can keep the name and change it at the same time. I haven&#8217;t decided for sure what I want to do on that front and I&#8217;ve got time to figure it out. There&#8217;s my rush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not interested in hyphenating my name. That just make it too long and kinda too messy for my tastes. Not knocking those who do, it&#8217;s just not for me. Doing it this way would still keep that familial connection while also taking his name like I want. Still, I recognize that considering a future that&#8217;s still a ways off is a bit of a waste of time since circumstances change and so do we as time progresses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In any case, I don&#8217;t really want kids at this stage of my life anyway. I&#8217;ve long been more interested in living a free life filled with few expectations beyond my own. Plus, I have determined through raising a puppy that I don&#8217;t have what it takes to deal with a baby long term at this point in my life. I can barely handle puppy shenanigans at the moment. We&#8217;ll just have to wait and see what the future brings I suppose. I hope it&#8217;s a nice one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Love is the law, love under will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopefully,<br>Vanessa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do what thou whilt shall be the whole of the law. I may have grown up assigned male, but I still felt the pressure to plan marriage and kids growing up anyway. Gotta carry on the family name they said. Well, that&#8217;s not gonna happen at this point. I&#8217;m already passed the point of no &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vanessasdomain.com\/?p=1981\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Toe the Family Line&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vanessas-domain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessasdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessasdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessasdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessasdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessasdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vanessasdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1983,"href":"https:\/\/vanessasdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions\/1983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessasdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessasdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessasdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}