To ask if your unmarried without kids beyond 40 do you also get the inquisition at work

[Jennysi]

Sick of it. No I'm not a secret assassin. No I don't hate kids. No I don't envy your husband. No I'm not after your husband. No I don't have a dark childhood and if I do it's not something I owe you a random work colleague. Why are all the men like me left alone but I'm treated like a sodding suspicious witch. Sick to death of it.

Nope, never came up. When I was 30, a work colleague gave me a relationship book as a birthday gift. This was the only time I can recall when anyone was even remotely interested in passing a comment about my personal life.

No, but I work in central London. Lots of women my age and older with no kids, no husband, and a fabulous life.

No

Older than that, divorced, no children. Never had an issue at work.

Nope

I think you've hit the nail on the head @PearBears it's very rare where I am.

I used to get this at work too, proof that men are sometimes on the receiving end.

It definitely depends on where you work! When I worked in a more rural area, where most people were local, I could see the confusion on people's faces when they realised that I was in a long term relationship but not married and had no children. I think for people from that area, getting married and starting a family in your twenties was just 'what you did' so they seemed to think I must have some really strong views to have not done so.
There is usually still questions about children where I currently work, but given we work with families and a lot of people are in the job because they're quite interested in kids, it's more natural to do so. I'm old enough that people have stopped asking me any further questions if I say I don't have any though!

Not at all, but I live and work in London, in a oretty progressive industry. And people are just interested in meeting my dog (can't blame them)

I'm 37. I recall this has happened once in my whole life. (From a friend's husband who by all accounts is a violent abusive sack of sh!t anyway)

Nobody ever questions my marital status or enquires after my dating life. Part of me wonders if this is because I might be so obviously weird that obviously I wouldn't have a dating life so people don't ask 😂

No, people, usually women ask me conversationally if I have children. When I say no that’s it, can’t say I’ve ever felt judged or questioned about my life choices. Although live and work in London.