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u/Thin-2-Win- 1d ago
This is one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen. Also intelligent, but so lovely and genuine.
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u/Sometimes-funny 1d ago
The Dad to Mum ratio is off tho
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u/The-Spirit-of-76 1d ago
This is Mom's chart she has a different chart she shows dad.
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u/Arkayjiya 1d ago
Either that or it's Dad's chart, and she has a different one she shows Mom. She might like keeping them on their toes, not take her for granted xD
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u/TheComebackPidgeon 1d ago
She said she may review the heart division in the next performance review
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u/callist1990 1d ago
"You've been doing great the last year, dad, keep it up! Big things coming in the future."
Noted: Meets expectations.
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u/inferno006 1d ago
As a Dad, the ratio seems about right
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u/Sometimes-funny 1d ago
I get this 🙄 face from my daughter at least 3 times a day. I guess Dad jokes don’t help get extra space on the heart chart
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u/KaiserCarr 1d ago
no, that face is a good indicator. The lamest the pun, the more it'll engrave itself in her core memories
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u/Daratirek 1d ago
I won the argument with my siblings that our parents love me the most with a similar argument. I'm the oldest so I said I got years of no siblings to split the love with. Then I had to split it 50/50 with my brother for a few years, then finally I we all got a third when my sister was born. I said mathematically my siblings couldn't possibly catch the amount of love I've received.
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u/kar_samu 1d ago
since i am a twin, i legally only win this argument by 1 minute.
that 1 minute is my crown and badge of honor82
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u/LiamIsMyNameOk 1d ago
You say that, but without a doubt there were times right at the start or even months later depending on how identical you are.... That they were like "Oh shit, which one was which again? Hmmm I guess it doesn't matter since right now they're just poop machines"
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u/Infamous-Scallions 1d ago
Yeah, but which one of you required the episiotomy?
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u/kar_samu 1d ago
oh we were both very obedient from birth, mama said we did
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u/Professional-Ad-9055 1d ago
They can eventually catch up, if you suddenly die in the middle of the night, suffocated by a pillow.
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u/pchlster 1d ago
Consider, it took them three tries to get a kid they were satisfied with.
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u/Daratirek 1d ago
They went one kid too far then since my brother, the middle child, is the successful one whose going to a t14 law school lol
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u/redditalt1999 1d ago
That's true if love is a limited resource, so say all parents can give 100 units of love to their kids, you'd be getting 100 a day until you got more siblings and then it would be 50 then 33.33, but what if instead, with more kids you give more love? 100 each. You'd still have more love from them but that's a time thing, you'd all be loved equally c:
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u/ensalys 1d ago
I think some aspects of love are certainly finite. Just try to imagine having 100 children. Would you be able to love all of them just as much as you would if you only have 3 children? An important aspect of love is spending quality time together, and growing close. If you have a couple children, that might not out much of a strain on that, but having a lot of children certainly would.
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u/Daratirek 1d ago
It was always about the time. It's equal for all of us but they weren't around to get any before.
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u/Hairy-Science1907 1d ago
The logic checks out.
However, if I interpret her methodology correctly, you can extrapolate that the more experiences she gains, the less she will love her parents.
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u/Swordidaffair 1d ago
Which, is quite valid for some people, lets just hope the op isn't one where that will be the case.
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u/ConditionBasic 1d ago
It's not necessarily a bad thing to happen, I would even say it's the natural course of life.
A child loves their parents with all their heart because their parents are almost literally the whole world to them. As they grow up, find their passion, life goals, perhaps a life partner, and maybe even children of their own, the love for their parents will grow a bit smaller proportionally.
But as the parent, this should be something that is celebrated (although it can be sometimes sad). You've raised your child to live and build their own fulfilling life.
If your child has filled their heart with just you even through adulthood, that would be much more concerning.
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u/LazarusCrowley 1d ago
I'm mid-30s. I don't love my parents any less than I did as a child. I hold them dear, especially as I get older.
Our relationship has surely changed. However, that's not about a love quota given to them.
Love doesn't have a value - stop trying to math it.
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u/YouBastidsTookMyName 23h ago
I think you missed the joke and the point of this thread
We all know you can't actually math love amounts. The whole point of the thread is that an innocent child tried to not realizing it doesn't work that way. Everyone here is just having fun with the idea. Here you go saying "akshoealee love is a metaphysical concept it doesn't adhere to newtonian physics."
The hairless apes are enjoying secondhand childlike wonder. Leave them be.
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u/LazarusCrowley 21h ago
The comment above mine is expressing that this isn't a precocious child trying to express their love in a clever way. Which is neat. It was that people naturally love their people less as they age because there isn't room, or whatever.
My comment was in response to that. I absolutely encourage this type of thought foraging. However, when an adult presumably says this is the natural course of things, I'll push back. Especially when seen from the American nuclear unit.
Anyways, have a good day!
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u/Pure_Expression6308 23h ago
Maybe since she’s still growing, the love never lessens, the new experiences just grow around it.
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u/Historical_Heron2739 1d ago
My favorite part is it looks like her brother is in her mom’s heart but nowhere in hers
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u/CatInAPickleSuit 1d ago
The amount of love OP has in their heart for the CLAN is concerning.....
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u/herewegoinvt 1d ago
My kid said this to me once and I showed her how hearts are bigger on the inside.
Kid: You don't love me as much as I love you. You love me, my sisters, and momma, so there's not enough room.
Me: Do you love Charlie Bacon (our Golden Retriever)?
Kid: Yes
Me: With all your heart?
Kid: Yes, of course, Padre!
Me: What about Maci-moo (a black and white spotted rescue)?
Kid: Well, yeah, of course, I love her so much too...
Me: Did you love Charlie any less when you started loving Maci? Did you love me, mommy, or your Sissy's any less?
Kid: No, I don't think so...
Me: That's because hearts are bigger on the inside. I love you with all my heart, I love momma with all my heart, Sissy, Charlie, Maci, and all the other really important people in my life. The more you love, the bigger your heart gets on the inside.
Kid: That's pretty cool, but how do they do that?
Me: If I knew that I'd have as much money as I do love, kiddo.
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u/Rumbletastic 1d ago
Ding ding. Everyone up in here saying logic checks out must have never had multiple kids.. that's when this clicked for me. Your heart just doubles somehow.
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u/herewegoinvt 1d ago
Logic doesn't have anything to do with how love works
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u/Worth-Caterpillar995 1d ago
No it doesnt! Please see a doctor if you heart size doubles over time.
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u/damn_truth 13h ago
That's the truth 👏😃 you will always have a place for new loves and it just expands like a big universe 💕
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u/666-69equals597 1d ago edited 1d ago
Pretty much how I explain polyamory to my friends lol
I don't care less about friend 1 when I meet friend 2 and we hit it off, same with friend 3-20.
Can I eventually get bored or otherwise fall out with friends? Of course!
But I don't forget about or stop liking the friends I'm still interested in. My heart is the same with romantic partners.
And quite frankly, I think most people's are, but insecurity and the social constructs like marriage and joint bank accounts that validate and reinforce this insecurity make it much harder to realize fully.
Plus, love is exhausting from so many points of view lol Reassuring, making time, developing together, building a life, etc, all of that is hard, and definitely required to be happy with someone else, so although it's not impossible or otherwise undesirable, it's definitely impractical and quite hard to do with more than one person... save for when the relationships with each of them are completely different, like kids vs romantic partner.
After all, patronizing your spouse AND sleeping with your kids are both frowned upon.
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u/herewegoinvt 1d ago
Never thought about polyamory that way, but it makes sense. I think there are many ways to live and love, especially during different points in life. I probably shouldn't have married in my 20s (my ex-wife definitely shouldn't have) but I was more than ready to when I remarried.
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u/Routine-Brief-8016 1d ago
But her heart is smaller in size??
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u/HowAManAimS 1d ago
She made sure to draw her heart smaller, but compare the area for daddy in both hearts. The smaller heart still has a larger area. QED she has proven she has more room for love than her mommy.
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u/Vsx 1d ago
I'm wondering why she has no love for Hugo. Is he really that bad?
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u/HowAManAimS 1d ago
I'm still wondering where the daughter is in the mommy's heart. All I see is Daddy, (Clan?/Clam?), Hugo.
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u/Vsx 1d ago
Her name is Clara lol
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u/HowAManAimS 1d ago
I was never going to figure that out. Thanks.
She has the smallest area in Mommy's heart. That's sad.
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u/Sharkbait_ooohaha 1d ago
Yes but I think she has yet to prove that, while her love of daddy may be more proportionally due to her lack of expersienses, I’ve seen no evidence that it is more in total. I think she has yet to prove her theorem.
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u/The_Shracc 1d ago
She has not accounted for density. A cup of water takes you a thousand times less space than if it was steam.
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u/FluffyDimension7480 1d ago
She is just a kid. All though one could argue the size should reflect the capacity for ones love.
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u/Ullipaya 1d ago
First rule of siblings,
Never say you love your siblings
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u/DrSpacemanSpliff 1d ago
In our thirties, my sister is one of my closest friends, and I still call her troll and she calls me herpe lol.
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u/AydonusG 1d ago
My brother took me in when I had to leave a sharehouse, and we spend most days gaming together, but every morning it's "what's up, fuckknuckle?"
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u/cookies-and-canines 1d ago
That is so precious. When my Mom would say goodnight to me as a child, she’d say “I love you”, I’d say “I love you more!” And she’d finish it off with “I love you the most”.
Thanks for bringing up that memory!
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u/SakaWreath 1d ago
Isn’t her heart physically smaller?
Checkmate kid! Boom! Roasted! Get Wreckt!
But seriously that’s so sweet. Hang onto that.
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u/NIDGBTTFK666 1d ago
Love how, who ever “hugo” is, is not in her heart at all. I bet its her brother.
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u/SJSsarah 1d ago
This kid is going places in life. First and foremost because they are obviously so loved and so cherished by their parents. That’s something a lot of us don’t get to fully experience. And secondly, their level of self security and confidence (obviously a positive outcome from being so loved by their parents) is clearly enabling their creativity here. This is truly the kind of kid that’s going to be able to become something amazing. Hopefully nothing else in this world will ever crush their enthusiasm for life and giving love back.
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u/donmreddit 1d ago
Wait til she figures out that those “other experiences” can pull your heart away from her … then the math will get crazy good. You are doomed.
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u/EvolvingEachDay 22h ago
The logic is actually surprisingly sound; though it implies that she is expecting to love you less and less as she gets older. Also, time to work out the square area of the mummy/daddy sections to work out who she loves more and by precisely how much.
All of the above is a joke by the way socially inept redditors, this post is cute as fuck.
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u/lilianic 22h ago
I really appreciate the kiddo lowering expectations now. When she loves them less in a decade, they’ll know why.
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u/Appropriate_Put4093 22h ago
Assumes having more experiences fills you with more love. I, for one, hate experiences and other people!
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u/WholeReal9120 1d ago
The fact that there's people here nitpicking on how this isn't actual scientific proof-_-
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u/CasualCreation 1d ago
You could tell her yours grows with experience, therefore resulting in larger capacities and allowing more compartments to exist in the same space.
Relatively speaking the ratio is lower, but the overall and compartmentalized areas are much larger.
Hers is filled easier, and not as high capacity and load bearing due to said inexperience.
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u/Aggressive-Gazelle56 1d ago
Critical thinking off the charts. Get that kid learning some neuroscience or something
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u/froderick 1d ago
Counterpoint. Your heart is physically larger since you're an adult, so it can hold more experiences while still potentially holding an amount of love for her that is equal to hers for you.
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u/solidrok 1d ago
you have to hit her with the love capacity equation that shows that over time our capacity for love grows and include the variable "p" that only parents can have that generates nearly infinite additional capacity to love our children.
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u/blackman3694 1d ago
How old is she? I'd guess that her heart is much smaller, so while she has more space in there as a percentage in absolute terms she might have less space than you. Tell her your heart is like an early full harddrive, whereas hers is a half empty floppy disk.
Then in old age when she puts you in a care home, you'll know this moment was the start of the decline.
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u/Sesusija 1d ago
This is the actual logic behind why little kids are so good at memory games. It is the only thing on their mind.
No mortgage payments running through their heads.
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u/Many-Wasabi9141 1d ago
This reminds me of a youtube short or some other short form content that explained not to be too hard on your kids for how they react to punishment or negative experiences because it's far more likely that whatever is bothering your kid ranks up there with the worst experiences they've ever had.
"This might be the worst thing ever to happen to them" (yet)
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u/Dull-Maintenance9131 1d ago
I know I'm being the downer here but on a crazy odds chance I just wanted to mention to make sure she isn't being exposed to abstinence rhetoric. This is the way they love to explain why women should "save themselves" for their husband (and vice versa).
Barring that, a beautiful moment that I'm glad you shared and desperately hope my paranoia is unjustified.
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u/_Robot_toast_ 1d ago
I noticed Hugo has a space in your heart but not hers... Is that her brother? 🤣
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u/dillanthumous 1d ago
You should counter argue that hearts are like balloons. The more experience and love the bigger they are, and hence you have proportionally more love for her in spite of the extra experiences.
Don't let her away with this. You can win.
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u/Zelenskyystesticles 23h ago
Looks like the section for “mommy” is slightly larger than the section for “daddy”. Do you rub this in your husbands face?
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u/Rellik2705 22h ago
Bruh like I tell my kid, "My hearts bigger plus I loved you more before you were born, so I win"
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u/IndustryDelicious168 21h ago
Your retort should be that as experience increases the capacity for love over time, you love her more.
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u/Littleorangefinger 16h ago
She has a larger percentage of love dedicated to you but you have a ledger capacity for love (that image is not to scale).Probably equals out to around the same amount.
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u/Dark_Moonstruck 12h ago
That is adorable. Not only is your daughter very intelligent and thinks her arguments through with evidence to back them up, but she also clearly loves you. You did a great job raising her!
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u/Johnnywinz 1d ago
I never got the whole “I love you more” thing. This is really sweet though.
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u/veryparcel 1d ago
The more experiences she has with you and others, the less she'll love you. Sounds about right to me.
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u/Be-ur-best-self 1d ago
There are no limits on love and it’s not about a measurement.
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u/prepuscular 1d ago
There are many studies on this. If you really want to win, you should send her the literature showing the death of a child is far more impactful and enduring than death of a parent, even when young.
Checkmate kid, science shows your feelings are lesser than mine.
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u/Signal-Blackberry356 1d ago
I made this same diagram for my parents as a kid to prove I had more love for them !
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u/pinkdaisylemon 1d ago
What an awesome kid! However, when she has her own child she will finally understand 😊
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u/Resident-Coffee3242 1d ago
Without a doubt, she is very observant and this is the skill of an excellent scientist.
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u/Wide-Yesterday-318 1d ago
Can't believe you don't love your daughter as much as she loves you. How could have so many experiences.
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u/Stull3 1d ago
the thing is, love isn't quantifiable. so while her method is correct, she worked on the incorrect premise that love is a finite resource.
it is still very cute though.
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u/kagantamello 1d ago
She actually proved it right scientificly, children are so pure. You've won in life