After she divorced aged 36, Katie Melua was worried she wouldn't have the family she always dreamed of...
The decision to start a family of my own was a huge one. Essentially I was afraid, would I be able to do the job well enough? My mum set an extraordinary example, and the paranoia surrounding the responsibly of raising a tiny human felt paralysing.
As I became a teenager the thought of unexpectedly becoming pregnant terrified me, then as the years rushed on there were times in my first marriage where suddenly the lack of control went the other way, what if it never would work? Close family members back home had had fertility issues too. But even if one ‘pandemic year’ equates to two normal years I didn’t want my mid-30s pressure and fertility paranoia to dictate the course of our relationship and to freak him out, so I froze my eggs like so many women of my generation are choosing to do. It did the job of taking the pressure off. I knew I could now enjoy my time getting to know him and if it wasn’t gonna be right, well there’s always the sperm donor route at a later date, at least the eggs were frozen and safe.
I’ve often been told that three months is a good time to spend on considering big decisions and three months after Dungeness in the kitchen while frying kale, he said he was ready to have a family. I felt a bit of panic, yes the pandemic gave me some breathing room from the traveling and careering but was my situation unselfish enough?
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