I've always had a beef with women being the ones responsible for ensuring the existence of a childless life until a couple is ready to conceive. Meanwhile, men go about enseminating whatever they please. It's just a fact that men are irresponsible and women are nags, so the duty falls to the woman. I bet doctor's have already come up with male contriceptives, but quickly realized that, with men in the driver's seat, the world would quickly become even more overpopulated than it already is. It's really not an option, you see.
At the risk of sounding man hating, I will amend my statement by reminding my faithful readers that, while my husband is a neenerhead at times, he is a loving, sweet man. In addition, I occassionally may be the slightest bit of an airhead. It's rare...but it does happen. So, we'll call it even.
The most recent episode was a couple weeks ago. I was about to start a new pack of good ole BC pills. If you've ever seen a standard pack, you know there are four rows of seven pills each....three "active" rows, and one placebo row. My particular pack has rows that are all different colors. So, they are difficult to dicifer.....if you don't read the labels.....which I didn't. I was in a hurry one morning, and popped out the first pills, and continued to do so for the next five days. By the end of the week, Mr. Twentysomething brought my pills to me and showed me a quite unfortunate sight. In my early-morning haste, I had flipped my pill pack upside down and had been taking the placebo pills for almost a full week. Are you catching the problem?
I called the doctor (who laughed at me) and now my privileges are suspended for a month. Not only that...but who knows what other surprises could await me in nine months??? I'll keep you posted.
How do you feel about the issue? Should men be equally responsible for baby control? Is there a particular BC that you favor?
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