ms.peachy
07-21-2007, 03:43 PM
Those of you who tune in regularly might remember a few weeks ago we had a thread about choosing to remain childless, and I posted this:
I have two close female friends who have made a clear decision not to have children. One, let's call her M, is a very "high flyer" shall we say - loves her p.r. career, which takes her all over the world, loves her Porsche, her spa weekends, her many breakable objets d'art. I know the way I've described her there makes her seem shallow, but she's not really , she's lovely and thoughtful and politically aware - she just really likes the circle she moves in, and isn't crazy about the idea of having a small loud sticky person with 24 hour demands. Her husband is pretty much on the same page. So they are suited to eachother, and a lovely couple, and there is no reason in the world why they should feel obliged to reproduce when it is not what either of them wants.
Well, guess what - M is pregnant! Apparently, as she turned 35 a couple months ago, she's been rethinking her position on the issue, and she and her husband discussed it, and they decided to stop using birth control and leave it to fate.
She figured that since she was a little 'older' and had been on the pill for years and years, it would take a while, if it was going to happen at all (and she says she sort of didn't really believe that it would). Mind you, she only stopped taking the pill in May...
So the moral of this story is, ya just never know what the fickle finger of fate has in store for you, my friends!
I have two close female friends who have made a clear decision not to have children. One, let's call her M, is a very "high flyer" shall we say - loves her p.r. career, which takes her all over the world, loves her Porsche, her spa weekends, her many breakable objets d'art. I know the way I've described her there makes her seem shallow, but she's not really , she's lovely and thoughtful and politically aware - she just really likes the circle she moves in, and isn't crazy about the idea of having a small loud sticky person with 24 hour demands. Her husband is pretty much on the same page. So they are suited to eachother, and a lovely couple, and there is no reason in the world why they should feel obliged to reproduce when it is not what either of them wants.
Well, guess what - M is pregnant! Apparently, as she turned 35 a couple months ago, she's been rethinking her position on the issue, and she and her husband discussed it, and they decided to stop using birth control and leave it to fate.
She figured that since she was a little 'older' and had been on the pill for years and years, it would take a while, if it was going to happen at all (and she says she sort of didn't really believe that it would). Mind you, she only stopped taking the pill in May...
So the moral of this story is, ya just never know what the fickle finger of fate has in store for you, my friends!