Childfree but want pets
My fiancé and I had to have my last bird put down in 2025. I have told him that we will get a dog but not anytime soon. I want us to have our credit cards paid off and have decent savings before we get a dog, which will probably take 3 years.
(Bit of a backstory, I got sterilized a few years ago so my parents know I don't want children)
I told my dad about my fiancé and I waiting to get a dog until we have things paid off and he had to say to me, "Everyone told your mom and I to wait to have kids until we could afford it. If we had waited, you still wouldn't have been born." Meaning they still can't afford anything. They struggled for years to make ends meet and, honestly, they still struggle and constantly ask me to borrow money.
I feel like he was trying to tell me in a roundabout way to get the dog now even though we're not financially stable and it annoys me.
It annoys me that parents bring kids into the world with very little thought on how their finances will effect everything.