I'm not ready to tell my mother that I don't plan to have kids. Keeping this secret is hurting our relationship.
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"I eventually met my now-husband who was the one that gave me the most clarity on the internal kids-or-no-kids dilemma I'd been struggling with for about a decade. He made me see that having kids wasn't something I had to fit into my life at any cost. Our life together could be complete with just the two of us."
"My mother always assumed I'd give her grandchildren. During an emotional mother-daughter moment over Spanish wine and tapas, she told me that she was planning to gift me her birthing diary one day. She'd been keeping it safe for me until the time I'd be expecting my first child."
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