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- I always planned on remaining child-free, and then I started dating someone with a child.
- It has helped me realize there are so many unique ways to be a family.
- Overcoming other people's inability to understand our dynamic has been a challenge.
I don't remember officially deciding that I didn't want children. It wasn't so much a decision as a universal truth hidden somewhere deep in my gut. Somewhere along the way, it moved from preference to certainty, from decision to fact.