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Lot's of women are critical of this article for a variety of reasons -- some quite valid.
However, the article is invaluable information for men who hav no clue what having a kid is going to do their once perky, sexy, horny, mini-skirt wearing wives.
Men are naive about what life post-birth is like -- had they actually KNOWN having a child would turn their wife into a sexless utterly unfeminine person I doubt they'd have agreed to the idea.
They married a fun, sexy chick with long hair who was sexual, flirty and loved to wear sexy outfits.
Post-child?
He is now married to a women that has chopped off her hair, wears sweats everyday, threw out every pair of high heel shoes she owns and basically acts (and kinda looks) like a man.
Let's just be honest -- the change is typical (just go to Wal-mart and look around -- the sweats, chopped hair and no make-up seem to be the standard issue mother uniform) but it is also extreme.
Lots of men change too. They go from stylish designer jeans and shirts to frumpy old men with pot bellies.
The crux of this article, for me anyway, seems to be proof that a) neither men nor women have any clue how DRAMATICALLY their lives will change after a child and b) a weird assumption on women's part that men should be happy -- nay! -- thrilled that the woman they married has totally changed into someone so unreconginable that they probably never would have dated them in the first place if they had met each other in her new incarnation.
"I don't wear skirts, high heels, or wear make up, chopped off all my hair and don't enjoy sex anymore and I'm thrilled with the new me!" cries today's new mothers.
Of course they are completely cluessless that their husbands HATE the "new" you.
So what happens? They divorce and remarry someone who looks and acts like the OLD you.
The only mystery is why newly divorced women seem so surprised that their men leave them after they have completely changed every aspect of their personality (post-birth) and then completely de-sexualized themselves?
