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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, are you actually upset that you decided not to have kids?  Honest question.[/quote]

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No, I don't feel upset about our decision not to have kids. I still stand by that decision. However I do feel that there are certain aspects of community and family life that my husband and are not part of. I find it quite hard to explain. Let me try and give an example. 
My husband's siblings, who all have kids, seem to have a closer connection with each other, plus a wider circle of friends and acquaintances than us, purely because they all had kids. 
They would have experienced ante natal classes, mom & baby groups, toddler activities, meeting their kids' friends, meeting the other moms and dads, PTA, attending their kids' school plays, sports games, BBQs with other parents, etc.

I also notice it in the small town where my husband and I live. It's a beautiful town and it's very family friendly and safe, but in my experience we, as a childfree couple now entering middle age, have to make A LOT more effort to socialize and make friends than people who have children. There just isn't that network.

I do realise that we've had a lot more free time and 'freedom' than people with kids, but at the ages we are now, it sometimes makes me wonder what our future in old age will hold.[/quote]

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