To start a thread about things you should not say or do to childless people

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As someone who can't have children I have sometimes been shocked at how tactless and insensitive some people can be - the latest being a colleague who objects to having to work over Christmas because 'Christmas is about children. Staff with families should get priority'.

I do have a family, it just doesn't include children of my own.

AIBU to be fed up of this kind of stuff and to ask other posters in similar situations to share hurtful acts and words in the hope that it might educate those not in our situation and who don't always think before they speak/act?

This blog post is terrific saltwaterandhoney.org/blog/can-friendship-survive-infertility

That is one of the best posts I have read about friendship and infertility. So much of it rang true. Thanks for sharing banana.

I’m 36 and single. Everyone seems to want to tell me a story of a friend of a friend who went to a sperm donor and did it alone.

That is a bloody huge decision and isn’t my dream, it may well be something I have to consider in the coming years but I want to find a partner, fall in love and have children together.

I would say around 30.

Ops wrong thread