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RE: Some Thoughts on Why I Never Wanted Children

in #womenspeakout7 years ago

Thank you.

I'm 44 now so should I have some sudden change of heart I have age to consider. But when I was your age, I had the same thing. Some ticking clock but it wasn't MY clock. People reminding me that the years are going by and I'm running out of time. There's a preconceived life plan out there. Find a partner, fall in love, have baby. I think the definition of "family" is changing every day. We accept same sex marriages as family. There's still a TON of progress that needs to happen there, but what I'm saying is we're moving in that direction. Yet we still haven't evolved passed the fact that family = kids.

Just do you and when the time is right and you feel it's something you want, go for it. But do it just because it's "what people do".

Congratulations on 10 years together. That's amazing.