Wandering Spirits Forum

The love for a child has nothing to do with genetic connection or hormones. First the infant or child cries a lot, causing stress and exhaustion in the parents. Then the child coos and is happy…a sort of Stockholm syndrome sets in, where you will do anything to befriend or please your captor…I mean child.Then one day, as you are cuddling the child, who is babbling happily (finally, after an hour long wailing episode over not being allowed to eat lady bugs) the child sinks their newly erupted fang…No teeth, teeth into your bare neck or shoulder infecting you with a chronic bacteria that turns you into a kind of zombie/caretaker/parent who thinks only of how they may serve and protect. Your immune system may occasionally fight back and you will momentarily regain your senses and arrange a date night, during which you will mostly talk about ways to insure your child’s happiness and health. After a few years, you have grown used to your disease all hope for a cure is forgotten, all is lost…and you are kinda happier than you have ever been. Until they become teen-agers. which is, I hear, too dreadful to speak of.