Originally Posted by kimc
Congrats man :) Why did it have a negative effect on yourself if you don’t mind me asking? Reason I’m asking is my dad had this done a few years back, and no ones aloud to even bring the subject up anymore without getting are heads tore off!
For some reason, it made me feel like “less” of a man. I was not potent. I could go through the motions and blow confetti around the room, but I couldn’t do what is fundamental to most men. (reproduce)
This does not mean I/we intend on having 10 kids. Maybe it is a freedom thing. I am not sure. What I am sure of, is somehow in my core, it changed me. It made me very insecure at some level. (eg someone ELSE out there is now better than me, virile, more virile etc etc.) I don’t understand it, but that is what I think happened to me.
I just wasn’t the same. I’m sure there are some out there that will scoff, and say how ridiculous my feelings are on this. But, I felt this way, like it or not. (evolutionary psychology stuff, maybe) I hope that helped.
I know having the boys back in action has changed me back to what I want to be. (whatever the fuck that is :D )
Paraphrased: It is not the critic who counts: The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, who, at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.