Women who are childfree not by choice are beyond the narrative of pity. When I stopped IVF and ended my parenthood journey, I was worried about people pitying me. The stigma of infertility seemed unbearable…
View PostEmbracing the Childfree Not by Choice Identity I never imagined I’d be writing publicly about being childfree not by choice. For the last year, I did not even have that phrase. I thought, “I am…
View PostThe idea that women like me “chose career over kids” isn’t just wrong — it’s insulting.We didn’t trade babies for boardrooms. We didn’t coldly choose conference calls over lullabies. We fought for both — harder…
View Post“Never give up.” Wasn’t that what we’ve been told all our lives? Weren’t we told that “Losers never quit and quitters never win”? Well, I’m calling that the “Toxic Never Give Up” culture. Sometimes, you…
View PostThe word childless carries a heavy, painful weight—one that suggests something is missing, that a woman without children is defined by what she lacks rather than who she is. But for those of us who…
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