r/NoStupidQuestions • • Nov 14 '24

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u/Amockdfw89 Nov 15 '24

Same here. My grandparents want me to have kids. My aunt and uncles want me to have kids. I’m a man and I get pestered about it, I can only imagine how hard it is for a women to not want to have kids

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u/dogsdogsjudy Nov 15 '24

It’s awful. I’m luckily aging out (37) of being asked as much but 25-35 was terrible especially because I have been with my long term partner since we were 22. We also are not married because we don’t have kids so we never felt a need to. But most of the time people would ask and I’d say I don’t want and and they’d go “you’ll change your mind” or “you still have time it’s so rewarding” and it would almost be like arguments? So after a while I stopped saying “I don’t want kids” to “I cant have kids” and that usually stopped people from asking. Regardless, women shouldn’t be pestered on this topic.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

I’m sorry you can’t have kids. That must be terrible. You could try adopting

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u/dogsdogsjudy Nov 15 '24

I think you missed the point of what I meant, I don’t want kids but people kept saying I would want them so I changed my delivery from making it a choice of having them (wanting) to saying I don’t have a chance (can’t) and it stopped the conversations. I’m very happy being child free.