Category Archives: Think About It

Five Comments People Rather Freely Make To Those Who Choose To Not Have Children

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I am child-free by choice.

It was an easy choice for me. I knew I didn’t want kids. Neither did my husband. It was part of what brought us together. But even though this choice was easy for me, the fallout from others’ judgment was a kick in the gut like, say, a mild contraction. Especially when I was in my 20s and 30s.

We live in a child-centric society. As such, there are assumptions about child-free people that are deemed as truisms. And people think it’s completely okay (which it isn’t, by the way) to make comments based on these assumptions.

Some of these comments include (but are not limited to):

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If You Are What You Eat, What Does That Say About You?

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The notion of diet and eating is a personal subject, fraught with judgment and emotion.  As such, some of this might piss you off.

I see diet and eating on a spectrum, like the colors of the rainbow.  Or like the autistic spectrum which, truth be told, I think the eating spectrum more closely resembles. 

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Falling Rather Than Springing Into The Winters Of Our Lives – An Observation On The Fear Of Aging

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I was out walking this morning, a cold harsh wind blowing snow in my face.  It could easily be February, except that daffodils, tulips and the young buds on the trees are curling up under the weight and stress of the snow and cold.  Odd for mid April.

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