Sex and parenting: if wishes were fishes

[Cloud]

I want to thank everyone for sharing their stories of "the Talk," but I would like to redirect people to my original intent:

Is there anything you wish you had been told?

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Cloud

Is there anything you wish you had been told?

Nope.

[Iggy]

Originally Posted by Cloud

I want to thank everyone for sharing their stories of "the Talk," but I would like to redirect people to my original intent:

Is there anything you wish you had been told?

Nope. I thought that when I said they did a fine job, that part would be obvious, but I forget you don't have the same thought processes as me and so it wasn't obvious at all. But I learned pretty much all I wanted and needed to know. All of the things I wish I had known you can't teach someone, they have to learn on their own. And if they had tried to explain those things I would have ended up more confused than I was in the first place since I had no point of reference to understand until it would have been to late.

One thing I do wish they had done (not told me or taught me) was take me to the doctor for birth control. It would have been much better than wondering if there had been an accident with the condom and whatnot. Maybe if they had made it known that if I ever decided to have sex then they wanted me to be safe about it and they would help me. I was going to have sex regardless so it isn't like they would have made me want to earlier than I did by being open about it. Maybe that does count as something they should have told me, but it is slightly different than what I thought you were referring to so I will leave my answer as is. Sorry for the rambling...