The Barren Woman

[astryr]

You ever daydream about the things just out of your grasp? Things you know you'll never have. Can't have. Things you should have, but cruel fate has stripped you from its blessing. So what am I even talking about? I'm daydreaming of the moment I'd hold my own child in my arms. Seeing her beautiful face. Those tiny little fingers clenched tightly

Comments

[suiway]

You are NOT less of a woman. The ability to give birth is not the essence of womanhood. In the same way that I am not less of a guy because I don't have a flat chest, you are not less of a woman because you can't have kids. Your body doesn't define you, you do.

I know adoption or all those other methods just aren't the same as carrying your own child, but as some one who has two siblings, a mom, and tons of relatives who are in no way related to me I can say with absolute certainty that family is so much more than blood.