Certainly not. You should be accorded a lot of respect for knowing what you want and being steadfast in that knowledge.
I was just having this discussion with a friend the other day about how much I hate when people say to me "when you're married ________" or "when you have kids ________." Thereby assuming that, as a woman, I have the ultimate goal (or destiny) of marriage and children. I personally, at this point in my life (age 28), have no intention of having children. I'm not barring myself from it, but at this point, I don't see how it could fit into my life and what I have planned and it would be unfair to bring a child into this world when I feel like I have to squeeze them into my life plan.
I get the impression from your post that you're likely in the same boat. No, it's not the "normal" path for most women in the U.S. to choose but anyone who would choose to judge you on making your own life choices and sticking to those choices can bugger off as far as I'm concerned.
Edited to add:
Also, good on you for making a choice in a world where so many women get pigeonholed into a certain role where it is questionable whether they ever really had a choice at all.
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I was just having this discussion with a friend the other day about how much I hate when people say to me "when you're married ________" or "when you have kids ________." Thereby assuming that, as a woman, I have the ultimate goal (or destiny) of marriage and children. I personally, at this point in my life (age 28), have no intention of having children. I'm not barring myself from it, but at this point, I don't see how it could fit into my life and what I have planned and it would be unfair to bring a child into this world when I feel like I have to squeeze them into my life plan.
I get the impression from your post that you're likely in the same boat. No, it's not the "normal" path for most women in the U.S. to choose but anyone who would choose to judge you on making your own life choices and sticking to those choices can bugger off as far as I'm concerned.
Edited to add:
Also, good on you for making a choice in a world where so many women get pigeonholed into a certain role where it is questionable whether they ever really had a choice at all.
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my severely neglected blog