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I feel no sympathy for the author. To breed was her existential choice. That it left her boring, sexless, distracted, tired, and preoccupied with the minutiae of "sippy cups and singalongs" is hardly a surprise. This is only one of the myriad reasons that an increasing number of heterosexuals choose to remain child-free. You may think "Child Free" sounds like "Drug Free" "Smoke Free" or "Disease Free". That is correct.
Of course, the author has every right to throw away her life and bespoil her relationship in any manner that she pleases, to trade desire for longing and to bore us in the process if we feel compelled to read about it. The tragic thing is that this sort of wasted potential persists as the norm and continues to be used as a social cudgel against those of us who resist it.
This article only reinforces the increasingly empirically proven fact that the child-free are able to outrun, outwork and outscrew the breeders around us. For the sake of yourselves and your children, please keep the hell out of our way.
