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[sg_lab2]

Everybody my age is married with kids. I went to a friend's house warming party today. She's married and has a baby just under a year. Most of their friends are couples with kids.

I don't want to marry or have kids. Yes, I know how shocking for a woman to say such a thing. :p I just want some friends I can relate to.

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[sazzat.livejournal.com]

*hugs* you can relate to us (your flist) and you know we love you.

And if it makes you feel better, I already know I don't want to get married and have kids. I'll leave that sort of stuff to my sister I think.

[blowersgate.livejournal.com]

We all have different perspectives and wishes in life. I know I'd like to be with someone, not necessarily married but I sure do want kids. But it's just me, like your friends who decided they'd want this type of life. :) And, really it's not shocking for a woman to say that. My cousin's 41 years old and she doesn't want kids and there are many many other peeps who feel the same way you do. *hugs* I'm your friend, if you need to talk, I'm always around. I'll try to catch you later on AIM. :)

[mangst.livejournal.com]

I'm in my late 30's and I'm neither married nor have children, and I don't really have plans to remedy that anytime soon. ;p There was a period of time were my Mom's friends were trying to set me up because they couldn't get it into their heads that I was not dating ON PURPOSE. They we're just baffled by me. So you are not alone.

[mizz-magenta.livejournal.com]

A lot of people my age have kids between 1-7 yrs. Er, but I am a little jealous, lol. But I have no intentions of getting married so I'll relate to you on that one. :P

!Que horror! The very idea............

[katelennon.livejournal.com]

I gotta tell ya honey, you ain't the only one. I mean, don't get me wrong, kids and husbands are lovely, I just don't especially want either so, y'know different strokes for different folks.

I'd rather be the cool aunt anyday of the week. You get invited to all the fun stuff and then get to go back to your nice, clean, booger, ankle-bitter crap free house.

And if you're really lucky, you've left the kids with their parents on a sugar high. It's like a hat trick of awesome non-parental fun.

[justhere1971.livejournal.com]

If that's what you want, then that's all that matters. Doesn't matter what other people want for themselves or for you. Life is entirely too short to live it for someone else, unless you do it because that's what you want.

[tringasolitaria.livejournal.com]

Hey. I know I'm late responding, but wanted to say I know how you feel. I'm single and in my 30s, and all my friends are married with kids. It's rather lonely, and I've kind of lost touch with a lot of them. :( But I really don't have any desire to get married or have kids. I might change my mind on the married part if the right guy were to come along, but I don't see it happening, and I've always believed that being single is much much better than being in an unhappy marriage, even if it is a little lonely sometimes. And as far as kids, definitely not changing my mind on that one. I think of kids as tiger cubs. Adorable and cuddly, but at the end of the day you want to leave them in the zoo with their mother and go home alone to your three cats. :D LOL. I'm not sure I'm making any sense at all. I'm just rambling. Anyway, what I'm saying is you're definitely not alone in your situation. ((hugs))

[sg-lab.livejournal.com]

No, you made perfect sense. I feel the same way about kids. It's like I don't feel pressured into these things, but at the same time everyone seems to be doing the whole getting married and having babies.