Dear Queenie,
All my friends have children or are about to and they keep asking me and my husband when we are going to become parents too. Maybe we will someday, but I have never wanted to get pregnant and go through childbirth and my husband isn’t interested in adopting, so maybe we never will have children.
It’s bad enough when our parents get after us about giving them grandchildren, but our friends too?
Queenie, what do we say to people when they get on our case?—Happily childless
Dear Childless,
If you have medical reasons for not conceiving and bearing children and are comfortable sharing them with family and/or friends, explain your reasons for not having children.
Otherwise, just tell them, “Maybe someday,” and change the subject.
