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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The women I know without kids fall generally into two camps, with overlap occurring in some situations: [b](a) never wanted kids or was/is on the fence about it, or (b) has a crappy partner/ no partner.
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Frankly - and I know I'm going to be flamed for this - [b]I frequently see women who didn't have kids because they didn't want them as being self-absorbed (same goes for men). [/b]I have literally had a conversation with an unmarried girlfriend with no kids say she was worried about what having kids would do to her body. Some men and women without kids [b]just seem to have arrested development - [/b]concerned with appearance, working out, dating, going out, and their career. Ultimately, this does not seem like a very fulfilling way to live (but that might just be the jealousy talking ;)).

Women and men who want kids but either haven't found the right partner or deal with infertility come across differently. There's more of an empathy, a softness there that I don't generally see in the camp described above. [/quote]

That is like the a, b, c of some childfree couples. a)The group that can't find ANYBODY to be with. b)The group that are so self absorbed, c) and the group that had infertility. Some people choose child free and really live to the fullest, but others seem to be like a tree that has grown all up into itself. Just around and around the same issues over and over. There is also d) the group that had some trauma in their youth that scarred them forever. One friend told me "I buried two sisters, and I know the pain that children can bring ..."[/quote]

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