At 55, I can finally admit that I hate being a mother and resent all the sacrifices I've made. Now I tell my children: Don't make the same mistake I did...
7 months, 3 weeks ago

At 55, I can finally admit that I hate being a mother and resent all the sacrifices I've made. Now I tell my children: Don't make the same mistake I did...

Daily Mail  

Last weekend the temperature was nudging 25 degrees but, yet again, I was stuck in the car for hours on end. When I was finally back home, I had chores to do – menu planning for the week ahead, a tidy-round of the children's rooms, subs to pay for cricket, kit sorting for a camping trip. The anonymous writer says she hasn't been a cruel or absent mother but has been consistent in her parenting At the age of 55, I have begun to realise just how short life is. I've never said no to a sleepover, even when it meant ferrying other people's children halfway around the Lake District. A little voice whispered in my head that if I didn't have any children, I'd still be living on the Med and enjoying the life I'd dreamed of.

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Becoming a mother at 50, after a lifetime of saying I didn’t want kids
1 year, 10 months ago

Becoming a mother at 50, after a lifetime of saying I didn’t want kids

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I was a terrible babysitter. When questions would come, mostly from family, about being childless in my 40s and single, I'd say with a smirk, "I guess I was so busy being me that I forgot to have kids," as if a child was a piece of luggage I'd forgotten on the conveyer belt. It's more than memorization: I know …

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Readers share how they dealt with motherhood indecision
5 years, 2 months ago

Readers share how they dealt with motherhood indecision

ABC  

When you know, you know. Managing parenthood indecision Photo shows Woman looking anxious and confused with a pink background Despite loads of soul-searching I still don't know if I want to have kids — and there are men and women struggling with the same thing. 'I've never felt the pull' Brodie, 32 from Gladstone, QLD: I feel like the choice …

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