Useless Conversation

[Ironwood]

Like Nebu said, there are a shitton of kids out there who need good, caring homes. You don't even need to go to another country for them.

But if it's your bits that's the problem, that's an easier hurdle to overcome than if it were her bits. So there's that.

Sorry about your bits, though.

This is why I asked.  There is in fact a lot more options, er, open before you.  You'll both take some time and get adjusted and then make some decisions.  It'll all come good.

Sometimes these things have a way of just working out.  Trust me on this.

[Cheddar]

Maybe find a sperm donor?  Also, I am a big fan of adoption.  In a few years I am hoping to adopt a child or two.

[rattran]

Put more men on the job!

[Miasma]

When my parents started trying to have me they couldn't for quite a while, they went to a Doctor and he said my Dad was infertile.  So how do I exist to write this you ask?  Turned out it was actually just because my Dad prefers to take super hot baths instead of showers and it was destroying all his swimmers...  He stopped doing that and very soon after my Mom got pregnant.

So you never know, plus like others have said if it's you there could be some ways to cheat that mother nature bitch.

[Merusk]

And so the advice begins!    Stop wearing tightt-whities! 

Seriously, though, hope you get your head back straight soon. Gotta suck.

[JWIV]

When my parents started trying to have me they couldn't for quite a while, they went to a Doctor and he said my Dad was infertile.  So how do I exist to write this you ask?  Turned out it was actually just because my Dad prefers to take super hot baths instead of showers and it was destroying all his swimmers...  He stopped doing that and very soon after my Mom got pregnant.

So you never know, plus like others have said if it's you there could be some ways to cheat that mother nature bitch.

 That's pretty much what happened to my brother in law.  Took slightly cooler showers and that solved it.   For myself, the key was after about 16 months of trying, we saw a fertility specialist, did the initial consultation and shortly thereafter, the wife became pregnant.    I'm guessing that murdoc has already been through this though and is past the stage of where the easy advice is helpful.

[Selby]

As another person who was diagnosed as infertile, I am sorry.

[murdoc]

When my parents started trying to have me they couldn't for quite a while, they went to a Doctor and he said my Dad was infertile.  So how do I exist to write this you ask?  Turned out it was actually just because my Dad prefers to take super hot baths instead of showers and it was destroying all his swimmers...  He stopped doing that and very soon after my Mom got pregnant.

So you never know, plus like others have said if it's you there could be some ways to cheat that mother nature bitch.

 That's pretty much what happened to my brother in law.  Took slightly cooler showers and that solved it.   For myself, the key was after about 16 months of trying, we saw a fertility specialist, did the initial consultation and shortly thereafter, the wife became pregnant.    I'm guessing that murdoc has already been through this though and is past the stage of where the easy advice is helpful.

Yeah been through all that now. At the risk of a TMI post, the issues seems to be that in both sperm count test I had, they found absolutely none. So now it's a bunch of blood tests and a meeting with a male fertility specialist at the end of August. I think we're going to discuss options a bit, but really just wait and see what the specialist says. He'll be able to tell us if IVF is an option at that point and we'll go from there. Right now all I can hope is that we'll get at least something positive out of that as the wife has pinned all her hopes on that right now and I'm a bit worried about how crushed she'll be if we find out that's not an option for us.

As Miasma points out with his story, the human body can be a fickle beast, so there is still some hope and we're both starting to see that now. The shock is wearing off, we're trying to get back to our regularily scheduled lives and are patiently waiting to find out a bit more information. Appreciate the advice and kind words from everyone and frankly, I'm disappointed how long it took to be told to stop wearing tighty-whities.  Personally, I think it might be all the Mountain Dew I've drank over the years...

[MrHat]

whities dew and pot

coupled with all that sitting in front of the teeeveeee.

[Ironwood]

You know how sometimes you've got a funny, but you've no idea of how to put it without offending everyone in sight ?

[MrHat]

You know how sometimes you've got a funny, but you've no idea of how to put it without offending everyone in sight ?

I say throw it out there.  It's not like anyone can actually see you.

[schild]

I only plan on adopting. Period. No conversations will ever last more than 3 minutes about this topic should they ever come about.

[Cyrrex]

The last page of this thread is littered with good material to make jokes out of, but it doesn't seem appropriate.

For the record, I think people who adopt children are heroes.  I get weepy just thinking of how amazing that is.  

Edit:  I wrote the above before seeing Schild's post - which doesn't mean I mean it any less, but I don't want it to appear that I've got my entire head up his poop chute.

[schild]

For me, it's simply like this: I was adopted. It's my way of giving back. Also, I'm not a big fan of labor problems, health issues, surprise defects, etc. Passing on my own genetic material is the most trivial archaic thing I can think of.

[JWIV]

I was just called sweetums by someone at work. 

[schild]

Is it safe to assume you're in the south and she likes Shoney's?

[Cyrrex]

And that she was ugly (or so I assume by your use of the  smiely).  It's funny how our tendency to be offended is proportionally related to the hotness of the offender. 

[schild]

Fit hot chicks don't say "sweetums." Aunties and non-desirables do.

[JWIV]

And that she was ugly (or so I assume by your use of the  smiely).  It's funny how our tendency to be offended is proportionally related to the hotness of the offender. 

It was over IM, so I've no ID if she's sporting a muumuu or is Megan Fox's twin sister.   Who the fuck uses the word "sweetums"?

[MrHat]

And that she was ugly (or so I assume by your use of the  smiely).  It's funny how our tendency to be offended is proportionally related to the hotness of the offender. 

It was over IM, so I've no ID if she's sporting a muumuu or is Megan Fox's twin sister.   Who the fuck uses the word "sweetums"?

Dudes.

[Sky]

I hope things work out for you, Murdoc, whichever way. My fiancee and I decided not to have/adopt kids, and we're incredibly guilty about it when we go to walmart and see the hordes of kids from the shallow end of the gene pool. Not doing our part to contribute to the deep end and whatnot, and raise a kid in a caring household. You guys will work something out and the kid(s!) will be better for it, since you will care that much more. Good luck!

[Signe]

We have changed to Verizon from Comcast.  Comcast just pisses Righ off so we did the deed.  The Verizon man was here for SEVEN FUCKING HOURS.  7.  VII.  It was hell.  He drove my anti-social red pussy crazy.  He felt as if he was being stalked because every time he found a new place to hide under, the Verizon man would go in to that room and he'd have to dash to a new dark hiding place.  I wonder if he thinks we did it to torment him.     Poor baby.  The black pussy just followed him from place to place and tried getting him to massage her face or play with her wire toy.  She is a shameless slutwhore.

He also tracked bits of dusty attic all over my house. 

The TV picture, especially HD, is 4,000,000X better than Comcast but their TV guide gives me a headache.

We save about 25$ a month after the first 3 months of freebie stuff and we get more channels, premium and free, and faster internet.

Dammit.

[schild]

I hope you got FiOS.

[Yegolev]

My Blackberry service was moved from AT+T/Cingular/Bellsouth to Verizon.  VZW is balls.  No surprise since I'm sure we changed providers due to price.  It's the crappy side of the got-a-Curve coin.

Also, I think I tried to explain the difference in a userid and a UID about seven times this week, to SAP BASIS contractors.  How do these fuckers get work?

[Signe]

Yes, it's FIOS with that 20/20, which is still cheaper than Comcast's Blast 15/forever.  We don't use Verizon's wireless service. 

[Merusk]

You know how sometimes you've got a funny, but you've no idea of how to put it without offending everyone in sight ?

You're getting old when you start to worry about what people on the internet think about you.  Even those of us you've "known" for years.

Say it, you magnificent bastard.

Appreciate the advice and kind words from everyone and frankly, I'm disappointed how long it took to be told to stop wearing tighty-whities.  Personally, I think it might be all the Mountain Dew I've drank over the years...

Well, it took folks too long to offer advice to being with.  I did it for teh funnay, but wasn't going to be the first guy.   

[murdoc]

Probably the best bit of advice I had gotten in the last year or so of this ongoing saga has been a buddy who told me to 'quit fucking her in the ass and you might have more success'. 

[HaemishM]

Win.

[Ironwood]

I've just been laughing at the chaps that think it's a simpler explanation that their Dad took baths and unclenched, rather than their moms went out and fucked the first virile guy available.

That's all.

[rattran]

I wish I had internet options here, but after my old ISP decided to stop do any of that old-fashioned 'support' stuff Comcast was the only option.

And all the places I've looked at to move in the last few months have been rural enough to have no broadband.

[HaemishM]

I've just been laughing at the chaps that think it's a simpler explanation that their Dad took baths and unclenched, rather than their moms went out and fucked the first virile guy available.

I think you just called their mothers a whore. You magnificent bastard, you.

[WayAbvPar]

Probably the best bit of advice I had gotten in the last year or so of this ongoing saga has been a buddy who told me to 'quit fucking her in the ass and you might have more success'. 

The upside is that if you adopt/implant and end up with kids, you can bang all the babysitters you want without reproductive fears!

[Signe]

The upside is that if you adopt/implant and end up with kids, you can bang all the babysitters you want without reproductive fears!

Do not listen to this advice.  You will absolutely end up ass fucked in divorce court!

[Merusk]

Agreed.  After watching many divorces and the aftermath over the year I've decided that if you want out of your marriage there's only one solution.  Death.  Yours or hers doesn't matter, but it'll make life simpler.  Plus "I'm a widower" is ++ while "I'm divorced" is --. 

[MrHat]

Agreed.  After watching many divorces and the aftermath over the year I've decided that if you want out of your marriage there's only one solution.  Death.  Yours or hers doesn't matter, but it'll make life simpler.  Plus "I'm a widower" is ++ while "I'm divorced" is --.