Were you born from an accident?

Planned? Not specifically, but not unplanned ether. Where? In a house that burned to the ground nearly 40 years ago.

Yes, my biological father was poking fun and my ten years younger mother took him seriously.

My conception was planned, but my parents didn’t plan on having twins, so that came as a surprise to them. They were blessed with a bonus baby.

Very planned. My son was an accident, though. I really didn’t think I was ready for another baby, but there he was! And he had a happy boy accident of his own! His wife was on BC pills but she was taking antibiotics. She didn’t know that can interfere with the pill.

Yes. Mom and Dad wanted lots of kids (which they couldn’t afford) but I didn’t get a say in the matter.

When my father cheated on my mother and left, he was sure to make me feel better by letting me know. “You know that you were an accident, right?” It was the truth, but didn’t quite qualify as a legitimate reason to lie, cheat, and leave your family.

@thisismyusername That was a pretty crappy thing to do to your child, sorry that happened.

What a horses ass your father was, @thisismyusername.

I was conceived on a freighter travelling to Canada. My parents were on their honeymoon, not planning to have children right away.

Stormy voyage. My parents were thrilled as the other passengers were too sick to come up to eat so they had lots of food for the first time in over a decade.

Then there was a really really bad storm and they had to stay below deck.

They were bored.

My father said that my temperament was based on being conceived in a hurricane.

my mom said I was

Not just planned, but prophesied.

Counting backwards from my birth date, it is clear that I was conceived about three months before my parents married. While my conception was not intended, it was the product of the love they had for each other; they were married 53 years when Mother died at age 71.

@Bill1939 , I always marvel that my mother was the only one of seven sisters who didn’t “have “to get married. 1940 – 1965, those R girls were ready to go.

The first two siblings were the result of our bio-chem grad mother putting her diaphragm in upside down. Sib #3 was planned. I’m #4 and was an accident.

Took me a loooong time to puzzle that out @Pied_Pfeffer! I kept reading “grand mother,” and I’m thinking “What the hell??” Then it hit me you meant your mother had a graduate degree in bio chemistry!

Sorry @Dutchess_III and possibly others. Mom graduated from Penn State Universary in ‘46 with a degree in bio-chemistry. Apparently, sex-education was still a taboo topic back then.

The teacher tasked with teaching us sex ed in HS, in the 70’s, had a very difficult time of it. He was not at ALL comfortable. That was too bad. I had a LOT of questions but after I asked the first one his discomfort was so obvious I didn’t ask any more.

Hell, the teacher tasked with teaching us sex ed in my school in the 90’s had a hard time of it. His discomfort and embarrassment at the topic was so pronounced that at one point one of my classmates asked him if he’d ever actually had sex himself.

^^^ You should share that on the question I just asked. What were your experiences with adult women discussion sexual issues with you?