I chose to be childfree. I didn’t think I was choosing isolation too

I’ll never stop trying, but parents and childfree people both have to work hard to maintain a community

We’d been riding our mountain bikes and chatting for a solid half-hour when my friend casually said: “Oh yeah, I’m pregnant.”

She said it the same way one might say: “I stopped by the grocery store” – although this was, in fact, a conversational hand grenade. My stomach dropped. No, I thought.

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