I started following this thread due to the IVF bits and I'm an imposter because I do have kids so feel free to tell me to get off if I'm coming in with my Size 10s (actually more like 11s) where I'm not wanted.
A lot of us talk about our kids because they a)take so much energy and time, and b)we're so scared of leaving them prematurely. I really hope that it doesn't seem like we're making it a less than welcoming place for childless people (by choice or circumstance). As I mentioned earlier in this discussion, many of my friends are childless, mostly by choice, and it has never been a dividing factor in our friendships, nor in the support that we give each other. My longest time, closest friend is both childless and a lesbian. When she came out in her 30s (after years of soul-searching and tears), I went to all the gay bars and her first support group with her as she knew no-one on the scene, so I know, second-hand, how hard it can be to feel that the world is set up for others @jena. Please don't ever feel on this network that you're excluded on the basis of sexuality or childlessness. As far as I'm concerned, you're another woman who has navigated her way to the age she is as best she can - and that's all you can say for any of us.
