Adopting Man Babies

At Let’s Not Date, the game is to see how many strange things you can say before the dude in your inbox stops trying to ‘date’ you.

Dec 04, 2025

♥️ Please don’t forget to heart this post for me when you read it.

Many men do not grow up, they just grow older and go looking for a woman to finish raising them. They are not looking for equals. They want to be held to no standard while being held up by someone else. They want the comfort of being cared for, with the added benefit of sex, and the unconditional regard of childhood repackaged as adult desire.

I gave them exactly the relationship they seemed to be asking for.

Hi I’m Brooke and I harass the unwanted men in my inbox with nonsense until they no longer wish to ‘date’ me. 😉 Read more about me in my introduction post.

My New Son Joe

*For legal reasons, Baby Joe’s appearance has been censored with bad baby sunglasses and a change in facial hair

Once you open your heart to a son, you realize there is always room for another.

Meet Gary.

Sweet Little Gary The Snuggle Buggle Buddy Boy

*For legal reasons, sweet little Gary the snuggle buggle buddy boy has had his face censored, but those are his real eyeballs.

Oh Gary. Oh Joe.

They vanish one by one. I am left with the ghost of a family that only ever existed long enough to frighten them. My sons! They are lost to me, not to death, but to recognition. I remain here, a mother only in the wreckage of the experiment, watching the door they fled through. And the house is quiet again.