If you're someone who doesn't want kids, you might feel like friends, family members, and even people you've briefly met make you out to be some kind of outcast. Or, what if you want children but the person you love and have committed to has no interest in becoming a parent?
Before kicking your partner to the curb, you might want to consider these eight truths written by psychotherapist, relationship expert, and author, Abby Rodman, LICSW:
- Look back, look ahead
- All about you
- No going back
- An alternative scenario
- Help!
- Why bother?
- Guess what, mom?
- An author's two cents
Rodman joins host Melanie Cole, MS, to share the eight truths to consider if you think you might want kids but your partner doesn't.
Abby Rodman is a clinically-trained and licensed psychotherapist with graduate degrees from both Harvard and Boston College. She has also been a relationship expert for 20 years. She specializes in life transitions (marriage, divorce, parenting, illness, loss) – just about anything that can throw your life and your relationships for a loop in ways you didn't anticipate.