• viking
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    5 months ago

    I’m in my 40s now and never liked children, even when I was one myself. So to me the decision not to procreate came very natural and has never changed. I was so certain that I never wanted any kids that I got myself sterilized when I was 25 or 26, don’t remember exactly. Just to be certain I couldn’t be trapped by some oopsie. Didn’t regret that step for a second.

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      5 months ago

      I don’t remember my mom being motherly, and asked her about it once. She said “I don’t like kids.” I said"but you have so many kids!" And her reply?

      “Well, I like you all now, I knew you would grow up, kids don’t stay kids, they grow into people.”

      Good on you, live your life on your terms!