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Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @09:24AM (#19980888)
Because if it works, great, but if it fails, you're now in a failing marriage and you've brought kids into that misery. Children are not something with which to gamble to try and make your own life better.
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Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by matz1 on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @10:56AM (#19981865)
So just like everything else then. Whatever solution you have, there will always be risk of horrible failure.
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Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @12:54PM (#19983062)
Many others don't involve dragging human lives into the mix as part of the gamble.
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Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by matz1 on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @01:20PM (#19983286)
Sometime the solution is to involve other human lives.
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