I know how you feel,I feel like that too. It's just terrible the things women with kids say to you. I now avoid social gatherings where you get asked how many kids do you have and you say none, then they reply oh you must be one of those career women. I have a high pressure career I loathe that I took up to support myself because no man asked me to marry him and bear his kids. My parents are divorced and my mother instilled a great fear of pregnancy and not having enough money after your husband leaves (my father ran off and married another woman when I was 4). By the time I figured out that was my Mum's experience and would not be mine I was in mid 30s and trying hard to meet the right guy. Now I am 48. Women with kids need to understand how awful it feels to have missed that opportunity in life, not everyone is loved by a man who wants to marry and have kids before it is too late and not everyone chooses to become a single mum. So please have some compassion we are not career women by choice, we would love to have had your options. I will toast a drink to you tonight, wherever you are, the writer of this post, and send you good thoughts, you are not alone.
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