Posted on 07/10/2018 12:17:25 PM PDT by Simon Green
Congratulation for a great PR idea to sell your upcoming novel about a woman in your situation. Tons of women will buy this best seller!
RWA
Am I supposed to believe anything in the NYT? It’d be the first time.
LOL.
It’s easy to be alone when you are young. She isn’t thinking past her next year, if that.
The day is coming when she will need someone to drive her home after a hospital stay of some sort.
She has yet to realize selfishness has a price. A high one.
She is an involuntary single.
That there is “Lipstick on a pig”!
8>)
There's a whole genre of this stuff. The supposed rationale for writing these screeds is always that other people constantly question the author's decision to remain single and/or childless, and she needs to set them straight. So, they tell the world about their amazing, worldly, free-as-a-bird lives. The fact that they think anybody wants to read this crap shows their narcissism, and probably explains why they're alone. Eat, Pray, Love, spin that wheel.
I don’t think even Laz would hit that
I believe him.
Some people are just not meant to be parents of a child and thankfully they realize this. Many more do not and the children suffer because of it.
I was not blessed with children but (I think) I make a much better uncle.
In your 40s, you still have enough distractions in your life not to miss not having kids.
In your 60s and beyond......not so much.
That’s ok. They’re importing all of Central America to perpetuate their ideology.
She can’t write either!
Biytch, are you really happy? Then why are writing a proposal for a memoir about being a single woman over 40 without children?
You wouldn’t be a good mother anyway.
We have no crumb crunchers but a couple of nieces and a nephew.
Neither of us are parental material.
I agree. In fact I would put it - I know people who should NOT have kids.
Wait until you’re in your 70s. You’ll still be child free. But you’ll also likely be friend-free, lonely and likely a source of worry for those few more distant relations who you remain in touch with. At least that’s what has happened to nearly all of the kid-free Boomers I know. Aging is miserable without the joy of children and grandchildren.
Run into quite a few that had 0 business with kids.
My best friends succeeded in adopting a fine baby boy a few years ago. That kid won the powerball in terms of loving parents.
For females, and on the other end of the scale, we have the insol - involuntary solitude.
Unfortunately, there are many in such a state, and they DO have kids, but those kids are... not helping.
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