CHILDFREE BY CHOICE

Yes, I’m married and 40, and no, I won’t change my mind.

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been told that I’ll change my mind when I ‘meet the right person’, or when I ‘get older’. The assumption that every woman wants children is tiresome, and I have always been flabbergasted at other women who would continue to ask me when I’m having children, when they had no idea of my circumstances. While I am childfree by choice, the people who ask when I’m planning/having children don’t know that it’s a choice until I tell them.