Category: Childfree
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Why I’m Not Making a New Year’s Resolution
I’ve never bought into the whole new year’s resolution thing. New year, new me? What was wrong with the old me? I’m still me. Just because the calendar turned to 2023 does not mean I’ve suddenly changed who I am and my outlook on life. So why do we constantly pressure ourselves to do something…
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10 Things Never to Say to Someone Childfree
With the holidays upon us, the most-dreaded, inappropriate question will inevitably spill out of one of your relative’s lips: “So, when are you finally going to have children?” It’s an unintelligent, unoriginal question. People don’t know what to say to someone in their 30s who doesn’t have children. As if that’s the only venture of value that…
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My Favorite Things about Being Childfree During the Holidays
As you grow older, the holidays can lose their magic if you’re not careful. You know that magical feeling — excitement and wonder — as if anything can happen. Once in a while, a Christmas song will take me back to when I was young, sleeping on the floor by my bedroom door across from…
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I’m Childfree, Not Less
I’ve always struggled with the term “childless.” If I’m being frank, I cringe when I hear that phrase. It’s not that I necessarily think people have an agenda to insult people like me — a 38-year-old married woman with no kids. But to be called less assumes I’m missing something, that I’m less important, less entitled, less than.
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