Today, my adorable five and a half year old boy told me that when he grows up he's going to be my boyfriend. I thought it was kinda cute until I asked him why. "Because you need one." FML
I agree, your life sucks (40542) - you totally deserved it (3454)
On 06/10/2009 at 9:12am - kids - by Anonymous (woman) - United States (Maine)
YOUR five and a half year old boy? That's kinda creepy too...but hey, at least he's looking out for you?
#4 - On 06/10/2009 at 1:56pm by regalarius
ok, this isn't creepy!
I knew a boy who wanted to marry his mom when he grew up. Kid's don't know these kinds of things...
but anyway! Cute and funny... and also sad.
Aww.. and the rest of you grow up it's not creepy he's freaking 5 years old! The last is pretty funny though, "kids say the darndest things"
#8 - On 06/10/2009 at 2:01pm by smiley_girl
Oedipus Complex! (Gah, #11 beat me to it!) At least he didn't say you were too ugly to have a boyfriend or something along those lines.
#12 - On 06/10/2009 at 2:08pm by uneekfreak16
... it's a fact of life that people need another person to "complete them" and all that jazz. How is this a FYL if he's telling you the cold, hard, truth?
I was JUST studying the Oedipus Complex for my USMLE Step 1 exam. Cool, this will stay in my memory!
#17 - On 06/10/2009 at 2:23pm by sikanderimran
Wow #18. Way to be an idiot.
Anyway, the 5 year old doesn't think like we do. Our minds are perverted and know what boyfriends and girlfriends do (have sex); however, the 5 year old doesn't. All he knows is that boyfriends and girlfriends love each other... And is it that wrong that a 5 yr old loves his mom?
You people need some serious fucking help.
20, you're an idiot as well. The 5 year old doesn't know what sex is. He doesn't want to have sex with his mom.. And to think stupid people (like you are) will have children and populate this Earth... Oh man... :/
I'd say FYL, but the fact that you have an adorable son who loves you and wants you to be happy prevents me from doing so. Many people would give anything to have as much.
WOW #18 - taking it a bit far, huh?
But there's nothing wrong with this - kids don't know better! At least be appreciative of the fact that he's still in the stage where he says things like that; in a couple years or so, after you develop "cooties," he won't even want to hug you anymore!
And who seriously thinks that anyone NEEDS another person to "complete them"? Yes, companionship is one of the seven things people need to live or whatever, but that is a far cry from saying you aren't your own person unless you find someone to spend your life with. Sounds like a pathetic excuse for co-dependency to me.
#20 - I hope you never "get" a child. Whoever said anything about sex anyway? It's YOU that's turning this into more than what it was. Relationships in kindergarten aren't anything new - Full House was showing Michelle having crushes and little boyfriends at that age over a decade ago, and I certainly wouldn't say that that was the kind of show to encourage sex!
aww.. that is cute. he only cares for your well being :)
#27 - On 06/10/2009 at 2:42pm by strawberryy
Wow guys. Most five year olds don't understand romantic relationships at all, he just wants to take care of his mother. :\
it's just natural, he's experiencing symptoms of the oedipus complex.
#29 - On 06/10/2009 at 2:47pm by MeanCommenter88
#20, fail. you sound like a white trash middle schooler when you type like that,
and your comment has no validity.
go away. :)
#32 - On 06/10/2009 at 2:58pm by funsize003
very cute :)
but if your 5 year old kid knows you need a boyfriend.... well its about time you got one.
#34 - On 06/10/2009 at 3:07pm by crvenazvezda
Incest!
You deserved it.
If your 5 year old thinks you need a boyfriend then get one. That's pretty sad...
#20: I'm so sick of people saying stuff like this, but I understand, you're 16 and you believe you know the way of the world!
I remember having crushes on older boys when I was that age, it's perfectly normal and innocent! Kids say stuff like that exactly because they don't understand the dynamics of a relationship. Seriously, people, stop bitching, judging and being so fuckin negative about everything!!
get over it. I know a ton of little kids that said they were going to marry their parents when they were little.
I told my dad when I was little I was going to marry him....get the fuck over it people the kid is 5
#42 - On 06/10/2009 at 3:43pm by punksharkchick
#40 my thoughts exactly! XD #42 - oedipal is the adjective form of oedipus. read a psych book sometime.
pretty sad that he knows you need one, though. :(
#45 - On 06/10/2009 at 3:50pm by diet_otaku
that's really cute!
when I was 5 I used to tell my mother I wanted to marry my two year old brother. I knew nothing about sex or what being married meant, I just knew that I loved him most and that I'd be happy to play with him forever. nothing incestuous.
as for the oedipal/elektra complexes-- to quote an old psych professor of mine: "Freud is one letter away from fraud."
if it's obvious 2 a 5 yr old that ur lonely then do sumn about it
#49 - On 06/10/2009 at 4:24pm by justmyluck1212
People need to get over this incest thing
seriously
a son just loves his mum and that's it
kids have no concept of what gf/bf relationships actually mean.
he doesn't have a perverted mind..yet.
#45: I like that quote
Not going to claim it as fact because I don't actually have proof, but wasn't some group doing research about how for the first years of a childs life they have a crush on their parents? Girls like their fathers, boys their mothers. Not in some creepy incest sort of way, but just the connection?
Five year olds have a difficult time articulating their true thoughts, but what he really meant was "You bitch and complain all the time about not having a man in your life, and I'm so fucking sick of it. The best I can do at this point is promise you that I'll be your boyfriend so you'll shut the fuck up about it and make me my dinner."
Please listen to your kid.
By any chance, is your son's name Oedipus? Bahahahaha :)
(I think 11 and 12 beat me tho :P)
#60 - On 06/10/2009 at 6:19pm by greeneggsnsam
seriously, some of you are completely sick. it has nothing whatsoever to do with incest or sexual attraction, he's just a little kid. he loves his mom and wants her to be happy. he has no idea about any of that shit.
awful people.
#61 - On 06/10/2009 at 6:19pm by fretforyerlatte
Whatever guys. I think it's cute. I mean, he'll obviously outgrow it.
#69 - On 06/10/2009 at 8:13pm by curryndricegirll
i don't think your son said it a mean way like you can't get a boyfriend or something... i think he's thinking that you need someone to take care of you and to love you since i'm guessing you don't have a husband/father figure around. he probably just wants you to be happy!! and you go on FML complaining.. this should me more like a LML (love my life. yeah, i just made that up) that you have a son that wants you to be happy with somebody.
#70 - On 06/10/2009 at 8:29pm by nooneknowsmyname
aww thats not creepy at all he doesnt know the difference its not fyl cuz you have the sweetest son in the world
#75 - On 06/10/2009 at 10:10pm by dgafprincess90
i agree wit 19 like i said hes a lil boy he doesnt know the difference
thats a really sweet thing for him to say = ]
#76 - On 06/10/2009 at 10:12pm by dgafprincess90
Coming from someone that young I would think he doesn't really understand the concept, and just thinks this is something every girl is supposed to have.
I don't support incest but I think its adorable when little kids want to marry their family. There's nothing gross or wrong about it to them thinking that way because what they know about love is that it involves a man and a woman that love each other and haven't an idea of what sex is and that kind of thing
#79 - On 06/10/2009 at 10:57pm by phoenixfyre6967
don't joke about incest, geezus. it's totally normal for young kids to be like that..
#80 - On 06/10/2009 at 11:29pm by uglyoldman
this really isn't an odd thing for a 5 year old to say. my 5 year old little sister insists she's going to marry our brother. Children think like that, for some reason. It's perfectly normal; so can everyone stop going "INCEST!"?
Honestly.
OP; fyl. thats tremendously funny, though.
#81 - On 06/10/2009 at 11:43pm by SusanaSaysRawrxD
He might outgrow it eventually... But just incase, it's NEVER too late to inform yur children of how incest and inbreeding is WRONG... jus a thought.
#84 - On 06/11/2009 at 12:34am by YungMarlon23
Aww maybe he just wants you to be happy! That's cute. He doesn't think he's making you out to be desperate. He's too young to be able to think abstractly, he's just heard that "having a boyfriend = happiness".
All you people think it's gross or whatever need to grow up.
Little kids don't know any better.
I found it adorable.
... That is, until he told you the reason why.
U should email me if u need a bf LOL darkstar310@yahoo.com LOL
#90 - On 06/11/2009 at 5:56am by darkstar310
I think that's cute, it's just a little boy looking out for his mother. I'm sure he didn't mean it in any bad way he just wanted to make you happy.
I think it's cute.
He probably overheard you talking a friend about needing a boyfriend and was trying to be helpful.
#93 - On 06/11/2009 at 10:53am by Loverfli
It's just like our society, take a story like this and make it out to be perverted!!
#95 - On 06/11/2009 at 1:40pm by karenmarie
burned by a 5 year old! wait, YOUR 5 and a half year old? ur own kid told u that u needed a bf? huh? what happened to daddy?
well now you get a boyfriend. might have to wait a few years if you want it to be legal. if your into that sort of thing
#109 - On 06/14/2009 at 6:16pm by xoxkayybabeexox
It's sad that more than 1 million people are like this person above me in this world. Earth is fucked....
No, it's actually pretty normal, and pretty common for little kids to say that. It's just their way of expressing affection, they don't know what that entails. I used to say I wanted to marry my dad when I was little. Needless to say, I don't anymore.
#110 - On 06/16/2009 at 8:02am by AuroraNoctis
He doesn't realize what going out with someone means, he loves you like family and going out is about love...just another kind. :D Your kid loves you? FYL indeed
Not an FML. At least you have somebody who cares about you. So stop effing complaining.
#116 - On 09/12/2009 at 3:26pm by Norma_Christ16
