#parental-regret

#parental-regret

I never wanted kids. I got involved with someone who had a child, and then, without warning, we got full custody of that child. I've been raising them since they were 5 (they just turned 20), and there is a layer of resentment that has built up because of everything I had to sacrifice and things I had to miss out on to raise someone else's child.

"Everyone says it's different when it's your own kid. Everyone says the first time you hold your baby, you have an instant bond. Everyone says it's the most amazing and important thing a woman will ever do. None of that was true for me. I always knew from a young age that I didn't want children. My family is religious and strict, and pressured me into"