The beautiful table I had so carefully set for my life was flipped. On this table I had created a beautiful place for family, chosen family, adventure, faith, love, creativity to come together to dine. This was my beautiful life.
Read moreI Let Him Take My Most Fertile Years...
Things you need to know about me - I’m 11 years single, almost 45, an only child with parents that have been married for 53 years.
Read moreRedirecting My Life
I am now single after my last relationship which has lasted 15 years. I'm not a young girl anymore. I left this relationship at 55 years old. Now it's been 2 years since then.
Read moreScheduling the Family Reunion
Family#1 can't do all 4 weeks in July because the spouses extended family visits and that's important. (annual)
Read moreI AM INVISIBLE
Being childless and single is double the loss, pain and heartache.
Read moreHappy Single in a Partner Focused World
Ten years ago - new year 2012 - I embarked on the project ”finding mr right”.
Read moreSingle, Childless, now Motherless
Before sunrise on a cold,snowy morning this past winter, my best friend, my precious mother, passed away with my father, younger brother, his wife, and I at her side.
Read moreMy Steps Leading to Childlessness
I am childless and I am single. The first is a fact for the rest of my life, the second may change yet.
Read moreMy Life as Childless and Single
I started my infertility Journey at 26 after being diagnosed with Premature Ovarian Syndrome (early menopause) and adoption didn’t work out with the home study process being to much for me.
Read moreSingle? Who’s your Emergency Contact?
Single? No kids? Remember that time you went to hospital, and you had no idea who your emergency contact was? No? Welcome to my world.
Read moreSingle & Childless Women Are Tired of Justifying Their Existence
“You should be a mother,” my six-year-old niece Keira said to me recently.
Read moreHow I am Getting There
Right now I’m superconcerned about this, the parking stall looming in my side mirror; have I got the right angle? I crank the gear into reverse.
Read moreBreaking through the Shame
When a new acquaintance first discovers that I don’t have children, the following things tend to happen:
Read morePlenty of Fish in the Sea, apparently…
If you are reading this hoping for a romantic love story, or self help guide on finding Mr Right, you are looking in considerably in the wrong place.
Read moreThe Double Grief of being Single and Childless
Single and childless are words I never thought would apply to me. I grew up believing marriage and babies were my future. How wrong can you be?
Read moreChildless (not by choice) Today (and every day)
“Auntie MK, want to build a sand sculpture gallery?” The answer is always yes. Children naturally practice presence and mindfulness in the most beautiful ways, giving transcendental meditators a run for their money.
Read moreFailed Choice Mom
Both adoption and biological conception are a part of my journey. After eight years of trying to build a family, a disrupted foster-adoption brought my dreams of motherhood to an end.
Read moreChildlessness and being single – The double whammy!
Finding out I was never going to be able to conceive a child naturally in my early 20’s was somewhat of a bizarre experience.
Read moreMy Snowglobe
Trapped inside a snowglobe:
Always cold,
Always snowing.
Single and Childless: My Story
How did I end up single and childless at 40? I ask myself this everyday. I wake up each morning wondering how this happened, and I go to bed each night with no concrete answer.
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