The childless girlfriend

You said it wouldn’t be easy

And made me believe you loved me

Childless and Single In The Teaching World

I am a 50 year-old teacher in a medium sized school. I have never received flowers or congratulations of any form from my colleagues ever.

I felt like I wanted a letter from my narcissistic mother, in which she acknowledged what she did. So I wrote this.

I hold them in the palm of one hand. A tiny pair of blue denim trainers with neat Velcro straps and white trim.

At 24, married and desperately wanting children, my husband and I were told at the IVF client, “Don’t waste our time”!

I am in the last year of my 30s.

Names I would have whispered at bedtime.