MNers without children

[MrsDanversGlidesAgain]

What's with the board name change out of the blue?

But now apparently I am still not good enough. Despite the fact I no longer want children. Despite the fact I have, under various names, defended this thread and defended childfree posters I am not welcome.

@Moreempatheticmyarse please don't go. Your posts under all your names, have been really thoughtful & insightful. Your experiences are relevant & interesting & you've been open & frank in really positive ways.

I was merely saying I would personally prefer a properly "childfree" space or option of one which was for people who took the positive, intentional choice not to have children

And there are threads in here @weeddigger which express just that. They are more often diverted or disrupted or shut down by the childed posting all sorts of rubbish, than they are by childless posters.

I don't think there was a single childfree thread shut down by childless folk or vice versa. I don't understand what the problem with sharing is.
Plenty of happy childfree threads on here

IMO it's not the happily childfree versus the involuntarily childless that causes conflict on this board, if you get my drift - I'm here pretty much every day from the start and IME we've co-existed (mostly) harmoniously and understandingly.

Have you been using the board? It is working fine. The thread title and opening makes it clear whether someone is happily childfree or not and people respond accordingly.

All going well, the problem is not conflict between childfree and childless. It is parents barging in to inflict their superiority on us all.

the problem is not conflict between childfree and childless. It is parents barging in to inflict their superiority on us all.

Bang on @JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon

And yes, sometimes what someone posts on a anonymous forum can be upsetting. Been there, got the T-shirt.

What I learned from this is that it's not the other poster's fault necessarily. My upset at an anonymous post tells me something about what is going on for me at the time. It's not the other person, IYSWIM.

And working out why I'm so upset at an anonymous post on an anonymous messageboard is a very useful process. Part of constant growing up.