Im not going to give her what she wants, just so she can take my kids and half my lifes energy a few years after having 1 of mine and 1 of someone elses kid -- for the cardinal sin of wanting to make her happy and trying to take care of her by listening to what she says will do that (hoop jumping).
[..]I dont hide my rapier behind a lace petticoat.
Arrrrgh. See what happens, sisters in arms? They take perfectly respectable science and a flippant remark and turn it into the philosophy of doom.
*petulant voice*
If I weren't married to a remarkable exception I'd retire to a convent and raise peas.