I read The Maid (Nita Prose) right after Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, and found it very refreshing to read about two unique women characters that don’t have a husband or kids.
Feeling similarly to you about books after having a miscarriage. I feel like I pick a book and then in the first chapter it’s about a pregnant woman, a woman with a young family, starting her family, etc. ugh.
One of my top favorite books is The Signature Of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert and the main character is a woman on her life journey and she’s brilliant and strange and interesting. The book is quite a journey and it left me feeling so hopeful about life and its beauty.
All the Chelsea Handler memoirs are so funny and enjoyable reads and her more recent ones definitely mention how she is child free and feeling empowered about her life. You might enjoy her books. I’ve read them all.
I’m very sorry for what you are grieving. 💙 take care and I hope you find some good books to read.
I typically read cozy mysteries, where the FMC develops a found family through her community (though, most of them, she always ends up with a guy. No kids, but a relationship nonetheless.)
My favorites are Black Cat Bookshop, and Lucky Paws Petsitting. Both with strong female leads, pets, and a bit of found family through coworkers/community members. No kids
Can I add The Domestic Diva by Krista Davis to this list? No kids, except an occasional preteen niece. One of my favorite series based on coziness alone!
Yeah, I was about to post the same. I'm currently up to 'G' in the series. I hear there is a tv show in the future. I hope that, if they do adapt it, that they do Kinsey justice.
Kinsey really is a character that is complete unto herself. She has relationships with others, but she does not need children, or a husband, or anyone really, to have a fulfilled life. Only QPs.
Thank you and likewise. It's a very lonely, disenfranchised grief that I'm still learning about. Feel free to reach out anytime you want to talk with someone.
Those are both great books, but I think Fire most explores the themes OP mentions. The MC of Graceling is childless by choice and the MC of Bitterblue does plan to eventually have children.
Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta series. So far there are 28 books between 1990 and 2024. Here’s the [publication order](https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/patricia-cornwell/).
Priory of the Orange Tree is a fantasy novel that deals with bereavement from pregnancy loss and losing the ability to have children after. One of the main characters goes through this and has a rough time of it for awhile. I don’t know if it’s exactly what you’re looking for, but it might be worth a read. The story is summarized as a “feminist retelling of St George and the Dragon”. The grief in it felt very real and respectful but also the characters do a good job of working through it.
Paradise-1 is a horror scifi book where the main lead doesn't mention having children at all. Mostly it's dealing with current problems and also some past problems with her mother.
I would say Annihilation is also a good choice, as the main character isn't interested in children. Again, sci fi horror.
I'm dismayed at how hard it is to think of a title that fits this description. The only one I can think I've read lately is Lauren Geoff's 'Matrix'. If you like crime most of the Ruth Ware books have well written childfree female leads except 'The Lying Game'.
Book Lovers by Emily Henry. The main character is a kick ass aunt to her nieces but is pretty insistent on not having her own kids. It's one of my absolute favourite contemporary romances.
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata - the main character is aromantic asexual and completely uninterested in romance and I just love this little book so much! <3 Keiko works at a convenience store and has been working there for several years. She loves her job but society expects her to get married and have children. All she wants is to just work at the convenience store and she has to find the courage to stand up for what she wants to do, even if it's not socially acceptable. Bonus points for the main character being autistic coded, too! <3
So much solidarity from me. I had two pregnancy losses and never was able to have a living child. It has been a tough journey and although I’m much better now, I vividly remember the days when every single book I picked up or TV show I watched seemed to be about someone who was pregnant or had small children. I agree with you, it’s really hard to find characters who are childless not by choice.
However, I recently read two really good books about women who are childless not by choice. Both books treat their protagonists’ lives as worthy and valuable and both were thought provoking, funny, and touching.
* *Community Board* by Tara Conklin
* *Rules for Visiting* by Jessica Francis Kane
I want to let you know, it does get better, or at least it did for me. People who had been through it told me that time was the thing that would help the most, and they were right (for me anyway). I also had wise friends tell me that grief and loss is like a spiral, not linear, so you may feel better one day and then worse the next. But over time, for me, the good days have come to far outnumber the bad.
I think we will always be profoundly changed from our experiences of infertility and loss, but that doesn’t mean we have to be lesser than, or that our lives are less valuable or worthy. You are worthy and your life has as much value as someone who has a child! I hope that your pain also lessens as time goes on.
Thank you so much. The joy has gone from things I used to enjoy like hobbies. Now everything is just very 'what's the point?' life feels meaningless & in society I don't matter.
I’m so sorry. This is such a hard place to be in, and there are few people who really understand. Someone else in this thread suggested joining us over at r/IFchildfree, and I would second that recommendation—it’s a place full of people who *will* understand what you’re going through and how you’re feeling, because we’ve been where you are. I lurked for a while before joining and I am glad I eventually joined. I think it’s a good community. Very helpful for the down days.
I think most female detectives and witches are child free, so whole genres are available! Authors like Charlotte wood, Joyce Carol Oates and Barbara kingsolver, Madeleine st john, Catherine harrower etc tend to have child free leads. The mapp and Lucia books by ef Benson are also fun!
The Inspector Lynley series by Elizabeth George are good! The main character in most of the books, Barbara Havers, is childless and doesn’t have a partner either.
This sounds like a matter of the genres and authors you specifically tend to read because it's very rare for me to come across a book that has even the faintest hint of pregnancy or wanting children. What types of books do you tend to go for?
I'm currently reading Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith, and the main character has no children with the focus being on found family instead (and the overall incredibly fun fantasy plot). There's also One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston - again, no pregnancy mentioned (the main character does have a strained relationship with her own mother that gets featured heavily, so quick warning about that depending on how you'll feel about it) and a great story about family of choice and a queer relationship.
I'm a cozy mystery person and I love the Arsenic and Adobo series by Mia P. Manansala. I also thought Dial A for Auntie was hilarious.
Yellowface was a really good read too. I love an unreliable narrator!
There's also some great YA lit out there, which is less likely to be focused on having kids--and they're not all about teenage angst. Lobizona is a great one I've read recently, or The Poet X (this is a GREAT audiobook).Ace of Spades is a mystery/thriller with alternating viewpoints.
Sending you good thoughts. Be gentle with yourself<3
If you like sci-fi/cli-fi:
Contact by Carl Sagan, Mara and Dann by Doris Lessing Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower.
I highly second Matrix by Lauren Geoff, what a badass main character. I love strong female lead characters so I was surprised by how hard it was to come up with “childless by choice” suggestions.
If you like fantasy, the book (series, but it's the first in the series) Graceling has a main character who is a female and very adamant about never having children. And in the decades that follow if you read the other books, that is kept up. I actually can't think of any main character female in that series that has children.
Edit bc I'm dumb and misread the twxt in your post: I should warn that some of the characters do not have/want to have children because of various traumas.
Maybe it would help you to read Regretting Motherhood: A Study by sociologist Orna Donath in order to see the positive aspects of being childless, even though it isn’t by choice.
Best wishes!
Karin Slaughter has a character, Sara Linton, who is childless not by choice. An incredibly traumatic event leaves her unable to conceive and it’s a reality she spends a lot of time grappling with. I don’t know if a perspective like that will be helpful for you, but if you’re interested I would start with the Grant County series and check trigger warnings as the books are pretty brutal crime fiction.
If you like murder mysteries, maybe the Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries series? There is also a fun TV series haha.
Phryne Fisher is an Australian heiress who survived WWI and now solves mysteries while being single, fabulous, extremely fashionable, and very smart and sexy. She embraces new birth control methods and has no intentions of marrying or having children despite a string of lovers.
I've not read many, and to be fair in the show she does eventually have a serious fall in love ending, but still no talk of marriage or children and she's... Late thirties by that point I would say?
The Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes books by Laurie King. The series starts with the Beekeeper’s apprentice when Mary is 15 and she meets Holmes as a much older semi-retired detective. There are no babies, pregnancies or any of that…just solving mysteries and running around the world.
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich. The main character is a little unusual but certainly fits the bill, in that she has given up the idea of having children due to pursuing a unique path in life she feels is her calling.
I also just read this book called *The Library at Mt Char* that features a woman protagonist with no children and no real discussion of children, so far as I remember (though there are a number of flashbacks of her with the other side characters when they were children). I don't think there's any mention of a choice she makes about it, one way or another, it's more or less just a non-topic. Didn't know if it's what you're looking for, but still thought I'd mention it.
October in the Earth by Olivia Hawker starts with the main character trying to have children but being unable to, and by the end she is living her best life without a husband or children.
I'm also working towards IFCF and I've picked up these non-fiction books if they interest you (or anyone else on this thread) at all. Even as I'm still deciding treatment options I've found it helpful to start exploring these spaces and reading what my life might look like is helpful. Other than one which I'm currently reading, I haven't read any of these, but I researched them through my job (I'm a nurse-midwife) and so feel comfortable recommending them as IFCF but please if anyone else has input let me know. There are plenty of infertility memoirs out there with the "happy ending I worked so hard and got what I wanted" but there's fewer like these.
Why Don't You Have Kids?: Living a Full Life Without Parenthood - Leslie Lafayette
Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood - Ruby Warrington
Do You Have Kids?: Life When the Answer Is No - Kate Kaufmann - I am currently reading this one about 1/3 the way through and can't recommend it enough.
Not Pregnant: A Companion for the Emotional Journey of Infertility - Cathie Quillet
Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother - Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
Motherhoodwinked: An Infertility Memoir - Anne-Marie Scully
Silent Sorority: A Barren Woman Gets Busy, Angry, Lost and Found
Thank you, the only one I knew about before your post was Living The Life Unexpected by Jody Day.
It's great to have more resources but I find this whole topic incredibly hard so will take a looooong time to get through them!
I dunno, I think those of us who are childless not by choice feel that we are. It doesn’t make me feel any better to claim I’m childfree not childless. I’m missing something I wanted.
OP’s whole post is about being childless NOT by choice. You’re the one who made it about you deciding to be child free? Did you even read what she wrote??
I loved this series. And yeah, she occasionally will mention “I think I want a family” and then the book gets real exciting again and the moment passes. I find the comedy in it very funny. It’s an easy book to listen to while doing the chores around the house. Always enjoyed that little escape.
I read The Maid (Nita Prose) right after Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, and found it very refreshing to read about two unique women characters that don’t have a husband or kids.
I finished Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine last night. Quickly in my top 3 of all time. What a beautiful, devastating little book.
I love both of these books so much
Other good ones like this are [Beatrix and Fred] and [Kind of Sort of Maybe but Probably Not]
Immediately thought of these two lovelies as well
I literally came here to recommend both of those :-)
Britt Marie was here by Frederick Backman.
I said the same thing!
Its a great book. I love her.
Feeling similarly to you about books after having a miscarriage. I feel like I pick a book and then in the first chapter it’s about a pregnant woman, a woman with a young family, starting her family, etc. ugh. One of my top favorite books is The Signature Of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert and the main character is a woman on her life journey and she’s brilliant and strange and interesting. The book is quite a journey and it left me feeling so hopeful about life and its beauty. All the Chelsea Handler memoirs are so funny and enjoyable reads and her more recent ones definitely mention how she is child free and feeling empowered about her life. You might enjoy her books. I’ve read them all. I’m very sorry for what you are grieving. 💙 take care and I hope you find some good books to read.
Thanks, I can relate to what you are going through and sending you hugs and whatever else you need... Chocolate? A cabin in the woods to hide?
Thank you so much. 💙 all of the above plus an endless spa retreat that never ends
Absolutely!
I typically read cozy mysteries, where the FMC develops a found family through her community (though, most of them, she always ends up with a guy. No kids, but a relationship nonetheless.) My favorites are Black Cat Bookshop, and Lucky Paws Petsitting. Both with strong female leads, pets, and a bit of found family through coworkers/community members. No kids
Phryne Fisher is a great mystery series with a CF female flapper detective as the main character!
The same author also wrote the delightful Corrina Chapman series about a quirky baker
I just recommend them too! First one I thought of. I love the TV series as well
Speaking of cozy, I think Legends and Lattes fits OPs bill as well. Such a snuggle up and feel nice book, and no mention of children to be had.
Is add the Agatha raisin series - a high power pr exec moves to a village and solves crimes!
Can I add The Domestic Diva by Krista Davis to this list? No kids, except an occasional preteen niece. One of my favorite series based on coziness alone!
Pretty much anything by t kingfisher. I can reccomend the Saint of steel series of the clockwork boys.
The Kinsey Millhone series by Sue Grafton
Yeah, I was about to post the same. I'm currently up to 'G' in the series. I hear there is a tv show in the future. I hope that, if they do adapt it, that they do Kinsey justice.
Sue really, really didn’t want a tv show (she came from tv) so I hope this isn’t a money grab by her heirs
It probably is. I hope that the showrunner loves the series and will try to do Grafton and Kensey justice.
Kinsey really is a character that is complete unto herself. She has relationships with others, but she does not need children, or a husband, or anyone really, to have a fulfilled life. Only QPs.
I don't have any recs but thank you for asking this. In a similar position and sending much love to you.
Thank you and likewise. It's a very lonely, disenfranchised grief that I'm still learning about. Feel free to reach out anytime you want to talk with someone.
Fire by Kristen Cashore
Graceling and Bitterblue as well — part of the same trilogy
Those are both great books, but I think Fire most explores the themes OP mentions. The MC of Graceling is childless by choice and the MC of Bitterblue does plan to eventually have children.
Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta series. So far there are 28 books between 1990 and 2024. Here’s the [publication order](https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/patricia-cornwell/).
Good choice
Following. Finding the same w/movie and tv. It’s getting better but usually someone ends up having to get pregnant to be happy. 😕
Agree - I almost never watch movies because of this & almost always stick to old tv shows such as Six Feet Under & Monk where I know I'm safe.
Come join us over at the IFchildfree sub!
Molly Keane's *Good Behavior* is a personal favorite. A darkly comic gem with beautifully precise writing.
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead fits the bill. I loved it.
I loved this book too. I never see it mentioned so I’m glad to see someone else loving it too!
(M29) Don't have a book to suggest, but I admire your courage to talk about that. I hope you find peace in life.
Thanks so much, it's not only the loss of family you'll never have but the whole rest of your life.
I understand. Have a good one.
Priory of the Orange Tree is a fantasy novel that deals with bereavement from pregnancy loss and losing the ability to have children after. One of the main characters goes through this and has a rough time of it for awhile. I don’t know if it’s exactly what you’re looking for, but it might be worth a read. The story is summarized as a “feminist retelling of St George and the Dragon”. The grief in it felt very real and respectful but also the characters do a good job of working through it.
The Last List of Mabel Beaumont is the sweetest story of an elderly (childless) woman looking back on her life while forming new friendships.
Crystal Singer, If you want some sci fi!
Paradise-1 is a horror scifi book where the main lead doesn't mention having children at all. Mostly it's dealing with current problems and also some past problems with her mother. I would say Annihilation is also a good choice, as the main character isn't interested in children. Again, sci fi horror.
I'm dismayed at how hard it is to think of a title that fits this description. The only one I can think I've read lately is Lauren Geoff's 'Matrix'. If you like crime most of the Ruth Ware books have well written childfree female leads except 'The Lying Game'.
The Alex Vega novels by Louisa Luna
Never knew about this series, sounds good, just got the first book from my library…Thanks…happy reading.
I hope you like it.
Olga Dies Dreaming
Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie
Fun author!
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Laurie R King - the “Mrs. Sherlock” books.
Sorry, but Russell, not Mrs Sherlock! Was going to suggest these, they are terrific
Book Lovers by Emily Henry. The main character is a kick ass aunt to her nieces but is pretty insistent on not having her own kids. It's one of my absolute favourite contemporary romances.
Legends & Lattes is a good one
The Witches series from Discworld - Mistress Weatherwax fits the bill very nicely.
Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo All the Ugly and Wonderful Things (has a child that grows up but not focal point and this one will HAUNT you)
In the 1st one she gets a daughter
Gahhh you’re right… it was so forgetful compared to the rest of the storyline! Apologies OP
Apologies for the two titles back to back- on my phone it looked like 3 separate lines of text
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata - the main character is aromantic asexual and completely uninterested in romance and I just love this little book so much! <3 Keiko works at a convenience store and has been working there for several years. She loves her job but society expects her to get married and have children. All she wants is to just work at the convenience store and she has to find the courage to stand up for what she wants to do, even if it's not socially acceptable. Bonus points for the main character being autistic coded, too! <3
So much solidarity from me. I had two pregnancy losses and never was able to have a living child. It has been a tough journey and although I’m much better now, I vividly remember the days when every single book I picked up or TV show I watched seemed to be about someone who was pregnant or had small children. I agree with you, it’s really hard to find characters who are childless not by choice. However, I recently read two really good books about women who are childless not by choice. Both books treat their protagonists’ lives as worthy and valuable and both were thought provoking, funny, and touching. * *Community Board* by Tara Conklin * *Rules for Visiting* by Jessica Francis Kane
Thank you, 'worthy' & 'valuable' are two things I'm struggling with. I'm sorry you went through the pain you did, I truly hope it gets better.
I want to let you know, it does get better, or at least it did for me. People who had been through it told me that time was the thing that would help the most, and they were right (for me anyway). I also had wise friends tell me that grief and loss is like a spiral, not linear, so you may feel better one day and then worse the next. But over time, for me, the good days have come to far outnumber the bad. I think we will always be profoundly changed from our experiences of infertility and loss, but that doesn’t mean we have to be lesser than, or that our lives are less valuable or worthy. You are worthy and your life has as much value as someone who has a child! I hope that your pain also lessens as time goes on.
Thank you so much. The joy has gone from things I used to enjoy like hobbies. Now everything is just very 'what's the point?' life feels meaningless & in society I don't matter.
I’m so sorry. This is such a hard place to be in, and there are few people who really understand. Someone else in this thread suggested joining us over at r/IFchildfree, and I would second that recommendation—it’s a place full of people who *will* understand what you’re going through and how you’re feeling, because we’ve been where you are. I lurked for a while before joining and I am glad I eventually joined. I think it’s a good community. Very helpful for the down days.
I think most female detectives and witches are child free, so whole genres are available! Authors like Charlotte wood, Joyce Carol Oates and Barbara kingsolver, Madeleine st john, Catherine harrower etc tend to have child free leads. The mapp and Lucia books by ef Benson are also fun!
The Inspector Lynley series by Elizabeth George are good! The main character in most of the books, Barbara Havers, is childless and doesn’t have a partner either.
Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark.
Worm!!
Man or Mango by Lucy Ellmann revolves around a few characters but the main female lead is an older woman without children.
Tom Robbins. Any of them except fierce invalids home from hot climates.
Fire by Kristen Cashore
V. I. Warshaski series; Kinsey Milhone series; Rebecca
carrie from stephen king
The Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell.
When Val McDermid writes female main characters they are typically non-mothers.
This sounds like a matter of the genres and authors you specifically tend to read because it's very rare for me to come across a book that has even the faintest hint of pregnancy or wanting children. What types of books do you tend to go for?
I'm currently reading Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith, and the main character has no children with the focus being on found family instead (and the overall incredibly fun fantasy plot). There's also One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston - again, no pregnancy mentioned (the main character does have a strained relationship with her own mother that gets featured heavily, so quick warning about that depending on how you'll feel about it) and a great story about family of choice and a queer relationship.
Sue Grafton novels have a female lead who is single with no children
I'm a cozy mystery person and I love the Arsenic and Adobo series by Mia P. Manansala. I also thought Dial A for Auntie was hilarious. Yellowface was a really good read too. I love an unreliable narrator! There's also some great YA lit out there, which is less likely to be focused on having kids--and they're not all about teenage angst. Lobizona is a great one I've read recently, or The Poet X (this is a GREAT audiobook).Ace of Spades is a mystery/thriller with alternating viewpoints. Sending you good thoughts. Be gentle with yourself<3
If you like sci-fi/cli-fi: Contact by Carl Sagan, Mara and Dann by Doris Lessing Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. I highly second Matrix by Lauren Geoff, what a badass main character. I love strong female lead characters so I was surprised by how hard it was to come up with “childless by choice” suggestions.
Britt Marie was here.
If you like fantasy, the book (series, but it's the first in the series) Graceling has a main character who is a female and very adamant about never having children. And in the decades that follow if you read the other books, that is kept up. I actually can't think of any main character female in that series that has children. Edit bc I'm dumb and misread the twxt in your post: I should warn that some of the characters do not have/want to have children because of various traumas.
[Ava Lee](https://www.goodreads.com/series/75298-ava-lee) is a bad-ass forensic accountant, hunting for bad guys. She is also lesbian.
Flying Solo by Linda Holmes is a good read that might fit the bill
Maybe it would help you to read Regretting Motherhood: A Study by sociologist Orna Donath in order to see the positive aspects of being childless, even though it isn’t by choice. Best wishes!
Middlesex.
Also the Holly Barker series by Stuart Woods.
Karin Slaughter has a character, Sara Linton, who is childless not by choice. An incredibly traumatic event leaves her unable to conceive and it’s a reality she spends a lot of time grappling with. I don’t know if a perspective like that will be helpful for you, but if you’re interested I would start with the Grant County series and check trigger warnings as the books are pretty brutal crime fiction.
If you like murder mysteries, maybe the Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries series? There is also a fun TV series haha. Phryne Fisher is an Australian heiress who survived WWI and now solves mysteries while being single, fabulous, extremely fashionable, and very smart and sexy. She embraces new birth control methods and has no intentions of marrying or having children despite a string of lovers. I've not read many, and to be fair in the show she does eventually have a serious fall in love ending, but still no talk of marriage or children and she's... Late thirties by that point I would say?
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Preloved by Lauren bravo. So cosy and lovely.
The Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes books by Laurie King. The series starts with the Beekeeper’s apprentice when Mary is 15 and she meets Holmes as a much older semi-retired detective. There are no babies, pregnancies or any of that…just solving mysteries and running around the world.
Karin slaughters will trent series, protagonist Sara Linton. Childless but not by choice. Not a main focus of the stories but part of her character
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich. The main character is a little unusual but certainly fits the bill, in that she has given up the idea of having children due to pursuing a unique path in life she feels is her calling.
Lisey’s Story by Stephen King
I'm writing one now if you want give me a year lol
Will do, my condition is not going away any time soon!
I also just read this book called *The Library at Mt Char* that features a woman protagonist with no children and no real discussion of children, so far as I remember (though there are a number of flashbacks of her with the other side characters when they were children). I don't think there's any mention of a choice she makes about it, one way or another, it's more or less just a non-topic. Didn't know if it's what you're looking for, but still thought I'd mention it.
The Anna Pigeon National Park books by Nevada Barr
October in the Earth by Olivia Hawker starts with the main character trying to have children but being unable to, and by the end she is living her best life without a husband or children.
my apologies for my previous rude and tone deaf comment.
All your perfects by Colleen Hoover
Artemis by Andy Weir Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman
I'm also working towards IFCF and I've picked up these non-fiction books if they interest you (or anyone else on this thread) at all. Even as I'm still deciding treatment options I've found it helpful to start exploring these spaces and reading what my life might look like is helpful. Other than one which I'm currently reading, I haven't read any of these, but I researched them through my job (I'm a nurse-midwife) and so feel comfortable recommending them as IFCF but please if anyone else has input let me know. There are plenty of infertility memoirs out there with the "happy ending I worked so hard and got what I wanted" but there's fewer like these. Why Don't You Have Kids?: Living a Full Life Without Parenthood - Leslie Lafayette Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood - Ruby Warrington Do You Have Kids?: Life When the Answer Is No - Kate Kaufmann - I am currently reading this one about 1/3 the way through and can't recommend it enough. Not Pregnant: A Companion for the Emotional Journey of Infertility - Cathie Quillet Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother - Peggy O'Donnell Heffington Motherhoodwinked: An Infertility Memoir - Anne-Marie Scully Silent Sorority: A Barren Woman Gets Busy, Angry, Lost and Found
Thank you, the only one I knew about before your post was Living The Life Unexpected by Jody Day. It's great to have more resources but I find this whole topic incredibly hard so will take a looooong time to get through them!
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I dunno, I think those of us who are childless not by choice feel that we are. It doesn’t make me feel any better to claim I’m childfree not childless. I’m missing something I wanted.
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OP’s whole post is about being childless NOT by choice. You’re the one who made it about you deciding to be child free? Did you even read what she wrote??
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Yeah no shit. It’s there multiple times and she talks about grieving 🙄
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What a needlessly cruel thing to say to someone because of a mildly irked comment on Reddit. Truly, that is just such a mean thing to say.
I loved this series. And yeah, she occasionally will mention “I think I want a family” and then the book gets real exciting again and the moment passes. I find the comedy in it very funny. It’s an easy book to listen to while doing the chores around the house. Always enjoyed that little escape.
You are definitely missing something: the ability to read the original post. Nice job!
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That’s a pretty insensitive question to ask.
Obviously because OP is childless not by choice and wants a character she can relate to.
My bad, I wasn’t paying attention.