Long before my ill-advised marriage, however, my mother was not happy with my life choices. That evening, I worked up the courage to ask her what she wanted of me.
At a family funeral in 2015, I met one of the children from my mother’s Vermont neighborhood. By then he was a retired college professor; he said, with great delight, “Your mother was my favorite babysitter!” But the infant terrified me. I was convinced he would die in his sleep during my stint; I spent the evening periodically creeping into his room and fearfully watching his tiny chest rise and fall.when the parents came home that I almost refused the payment they gave me. Being relieved of the awful burden of caring for their children seemed payment enough.
As I suspected, my friends’ predictions were off the mark. My maternal instincts never kicked in—not in my 20s, my 30s, or my 40s, as I prepared to wave goodbye to my childbearing years. My older nephew was 3 when my mother was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Four years later, she moved to a nursing home for 24-hour care. After 30 years of living elsewhere and returning only for periodic visits, I moved back to the area where I had grown up to help care for her.
I assured her I had been happy do so, and I meant it. During those years, we became close in a way we never had been before.
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I've made countless bad decisions, but posting an opinion article based on the pretenses that no one cares about. Obviously, there's regret because it's at the forefront of your conscious and you feel convinced to try and convince others that it doesn't bother you. How's that?
And why do we have to be all concerned with being kind and nurturing and leaving the world a better place?
sorry to hear it
Yeah 🌹take a leaf 🌿 out of Angelina Jolie's book 📚 & adopt a child, she is most probably the most beautiful genuine lady on this planet 🌍
Children been raising children so thats not a fuck up but success does require failure! NMS
The world would be a better place if all the women who didn't want children never had them.
There is not enough articles about being childless.
I see nothing wrong with being childless, but this statement is a contradiction. You can't leave a permanent imprint on society if you erase your lineage from history. You can't combat climate change without engineering and 'manpower' for example, both require humans.
Don’t worry… you’re not the only one. I will probably won’t have a family of my own because for reasons out of my control. I believe that God put me on this planet for a reason. To help make the world a better place.
Nothing wrong with that
Taking care of my dog was one of the best coping strategies. Love him like a son
I was afraid to have children. Until I had them. The truth is that you never know what you’re missing until you have that thing. It can go wrong, too. As long as you are happy, there should not be any justification, though…
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