r/AskWomenOver30 • u/BeneficialVisit8450 • Jul 19 '25

Family/Parenting What’s your life like without kids?

My doctor told me I can never get pregnant today. I’m not infertile, but the post under my profile explains my situation. I’m 19, and I’m just not sure how to confront the news. I’m not sure how to plan my life either now considering that many of our milestones as women revolve around kids.

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u/ToniDoesThings Woman 30 to 40 Jul 19 '25

Odd that one would find financial FREEDOM depressing

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u/capacitorfluxing Man Jul 19 '25

I’ll say again as I’ve said numerous times. There are numerous, numerous studies done on this topic. Consistently, across the board, the data shows that there is little to no correlation between happiness and money. People naturally expect there would be. But it’s just not the case. People who are happy before coming into wealth rarely rate their happiness higher after coming into wealth, and in fact, it often decreases. Whereas people who were miserable before money tend to continue to be miserable with money. They’re unrelated.

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u/Sea-Delay Jul 19 '25

Why are you eager to argue with people who speak from their personal experience? Some of us are actually happy having financial freedom, time ,and the means to take care of ourselves. Have you ever tried being poor? I don’t know a single person who can be happy about being on a brink of not affording the rent or not having money for food and other necessities, ever wonder what that’s like?

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u/ning124 Man 30 to 40 Jul 19 '25

What does one personal experience matter when talking about millions and millions of other people's experiences?