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[quote=Anonymous]This may be difficult to understand, but I will provide my somewhat unfeeling opinion anyway. I was a teacher, a special education middle school teacher for many years. We are in love with babies, not so much with older kids. It is painful when you're friends all start to get married, have kids, etc. What is painful about not having kids? It is tough to be at that stage of life and have to hear about your friends engagements, weddings, baby showers, etc.

Like the girl in high school who didn't get asked to the prom, you feel left out, only if it bothers you.

What often hurts, are the "mean girl" comments made by women with kids to those who are childfree/less. They make rude comments about my "selfishness" or even call me "selfish" for not having kids. I probably spent more time taking care of other people's kids as a teacher than they spent with their own. I also volunteer my time to worthy causes that benefit kids.

This competition between women never changes or improves with age, so be a better person and don't participate. In the nursing home, women in their 80s will brag and be mean to other women based on how often they see or hear from their children and grandchildren. Think of how painful it would be if your children died before you, and the other mean girls in the nursing home bragged about how their kids were still alive.

Just awful of women to be that way to each other. [/quote]

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