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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People get happier as they get older as they don't have to work. I would be happier if I didn't have to.
I am turning 32 soon and dreading it.  I hate birthdays, find them very hard and depressing. [/quote]

Also you aren't responsible for as much as your children are grown adults who you have to accept as they are. [/quote]

Doesn't work like that always. 
1. I don't have kids but it isn't always the case that they are 'Off your hands' by age 18, many grown adults still live with parents.
2. My mom will never accept my childless status or me as a person[/quote]

NP here.

1.  Totally.  I don't have children (long story), but I've met so many people who have failure to launch kids still living with them in late 20s and early 30s.  And then there are those who have kids who don't live with them but have sucked money from them (needed money for mortgage, down payment, or divorce situation).  That's why I get irritated when someone says, "You don't have kids?  What will happen to you when you're old?"   The only people I know who are being "taken care of" by their adult kids are people who are essentially supporting their adult kids.  In exchange, the adult kid drives them to an appointment every once in a while.  And there is very much the sense that the adult kid is really only doing it in the hopes of inheriting a house and some money.

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