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Let's start a GLP women's group thread.. support, advice, etc. Post here please
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Not to change the subject, but I thought I'd jump into the thread with my own issue that has always made me feel like I didn't belong no matter what group of women I was hanging out with. I can't have children, and you would be surprised how many conversations that women of my age (early 50s) have about their kids, grand kids, etc. I feel so separate from other women. I can't tell you how many weddings, wedding showers and baby showers I had to go to last year for my friends' adult children. Nobody seems to understand how it feels when I go to all of these things, knowing that it will never be my turn to be the beaming mother of the bride or grandmother. I am a step grandmother to 3 lovely children, but they already have 2 sets of "real" grandparents and I am not really treated like anyone that counts for anything. Sorry for that long post. I just had to vent a little after the holidays, I guess. Thanks for listening.  I envy you, if I could have a "do over" I would skip the kid thing. I can understand how you feel around other women with kids dominating the topic. The holidays make it worse. I hate Christmas LOL PS I bet you are not as grey as mothers. LOL The stress of kids and grandkids makes you age faster. And they break everything, and no matter how old they get they want / need all your money, and they always need help fixing or cleaning and all that. Yep I envy you. LOL...some people may read that and think it sounds harsh, but I totally get it. It's not that I ever wanted children....I never really connected with the whole maternal thing, which is what made it even harder when I was in a roomful of women gushing over grandchildren. I wish you could have a "do over" too, AC. I like the free time and solitude it affords me, but it really makes it hard for me to make friends with or relate to other women. No kids here either, entirely by choice. The wonderful thing now is that while I find I have little in common with women my age (50s), I have a whole lot of interests in common with guys of all ages. Classic cars, the sciences (such as meteorology), military history, excercise and fitness. And as a postmenopausal woman the whole gender tension dynamic is simply evaporated. I get to interact with guys of all ages not as a potential partner, but simply as a strong, healthy human being who is simply of the other gender -- and often of another generation.
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