#childless

[classycookiexo]

[hard--headed--woman]

There is no desire that I understand less than the desire to be a mother. I've tried to understand, but I can't. I don't understand how you can desire to be pregnant, to feel a human being grow up in your womb, making you throw up, making you unable to move like you want and kicking you. I don't understand how you can wish to spend your life taking care of a child, who needs you to be present all the time, who relies on you for everything. I don't understand how you can want something so stressful, exhausting, annoying, boring, who leaves you with no freedom and time for yourself. And don't tell me that if you do things well you can still have freedom and time for yourself and live a fulfilling life ; because no matter what you do, no matter how much your husband takes care of the kids too, no matter how much your friends and family help you, at the end of the day your life still revolves around the kids. Your life still aren't yours anymore. And I just can't understand how anyone can desire that.

[freckled-radfem]

Reasons not to get pregnant/have a child/raise children. From girlwiththelist1 on tiktok

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

I love working with kids but never want any of my own and this really confuses people for some reason. and its like well those kids I get to give back after a few hours and if I was pregnant I'd have to stop smoking weed

[decaf-oatmilk-latte]

This is for me & all of the other childfree hotties

[myjukeboxbrain]

[dzgrizzle]

Childless Cat Daddies in Solidarity with Childless Cat Ladies 🐱

[classycookiexo]

Period

[blankbooks]

to my future child

I’m scared of a lot

But mostly I’m scared of the day I’ll hold you in my arms for the first time

And I'm scared of the day you spill milk on the carpet

And I’m scared of the way my voice will pierce the air and travel right to your heart and stay in your brain forever

I’m also afraid of the day you throw a tantrum, of the look I’ll give you in public, a promise of returning home and the punishment that awaits you

I’m afraid of the day you grow obnoxious, of the way I’ll resent the way you speak about the newest cartoons and why that is your favorite character

I’m afraid of the day you flinch

I’m afraid of the day I’ll try to soothe you, but really it's me I’m trying to make feel better 

I’m also scared of the day you finally grow resentful and angry 

And I'm scared of the day I will be right 

Afraid that one day I’ll see that I wasn't kind enough, brave enough, stable enough to raise you as I should have 

I’m afraid of the day I’ll realize I’m her

And the day I realize you are me. 

To my dearest… never-to-be born child.

May we never meet. 

The kindest thing I can do for you is make absolutely certain the day we meet, the day I hold you in my arms for the first time never comes.

[animentality]

[lousydrawingsforgoodpeople]

[captainclickycat]

I’m very happily childless but one of the things that is kind of annoying about it is the way it doesn’t give you any conversational footing.

Like when you’re talking to someone and the topic of kids comes up, and they have kids, so they have a whole conversational opening to talk about their kids and their ages and personalities and how little Simon just won the Duke of Wimbingkingshamsham award for caber tossing and Julie is the youngest bank manager in the UK at eight.

And then they say “how about you, do you have kids?” and all you can say is “no”.

And then everything just feels a bit imbalanced and wrong-footed in that moment because you can’t build on that. You can’t talk at length about the absence of children. You wind up feeling like you haven’t had a proper turn.

[apparentlyeddie]

The whole "you'll regret not having kids one day!" Is so dumb.

I'd rather regret not having children when I'm older than have them and regret/hate the child for the first 10-20 years of their life.

I'd rather regret my own decision than force misery on someone else.

[classycookiexo]

[howifeltabouthim]

You just have no idea how rich and wonderful parenthood can be. In fact, you haven't really lived until you've wrestled a shrieking four-year-old to the ground at Target.

Curtis Sittenfeld, from Eligible