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"   \u00A0 1. We&amp;#039;re secretly a bit jealous that we&amp;#039;ll never get to give birth. Okay, it looks pretty awful, but we get a bit teary over One Born Every Minute the same as everyone else. Plus it&amp;#039;s the one time you get to swear at strangers. \u00A0 2. When people tell us we&amp;#039;re not broody because we &amp;#039;just haven&amp;#039;t met the right man yet,&amp;#039; it makes us feel like a 1950s housewife whose fanciful thoughts in her pretty little head can be swayed by a whiff of pheremones. And if we&amp;#039;re in a relationship, this &amp;#039;helpful&amp;#039; comment is just another way of saying our boyfriend is rubbish. \u00A0 3. We don&amp;#039;t look at parents and scoff smugly at our comparatively easy lives. More often, we&amp;#039;re in awe. How do you do it? It looks so knackering, and involves so much physical and emotional energy. Just putting up a Bugaboo would make us need a lie-down. The idea of doing what you do terrifies us. We&amp;#039;re officially impressed. \u00A0 4. Although you&amp;#039;ll struggle to find one who&amp;#039;ll admit it, when childfree women say, &amp;#039;I adore children, they are like WALKING RAINBOWS,&amp;#039; they&amp;#039;re not always telling the truth. More likely, they just don&amp;#039;t want to alienate their friends-with-kids. Let&amp;#039;s face it, if you adored something that much, wouldn&amp;#039;t you want one too? \u00A0 5. If you want to know about contraception, ask the child-free. We boast encyclopaedic knowledge of every type, how effective they are, and what to do if they cock up. \u00A0 6. No, we don&amp;#039;t want to sniff your baby&amp;#039;s head. And certainly not its bottom to see if it&amp;#039;s done a poo. Honestly. Would you like a whiff of my elbow? Thought not. \u00A0 7. We reserve special mistrust for people who say, &amp;#039;You&amp;#039;d love being a parent if you actually had a baby!&amp;#039; Imagine if we rolled up and said, &amp;#039;I just signed up for a non-refundable, 21-year daily course of windsurfing lessons for \u00A3225,000. Oh, and I hate getting wet. And the sea,&amp;#039; you&amp;#039;d think we were mad. Not wishing to compare your baby to a surfboard, but to us it&amp;#039;s pretty much the same thing. \u00A0 8. No childfree couple has ever &amp;#039;dropped everything and flown to Paris.&amp;#039; And sex in the kitchen dried up after the first year, the same as everyone else. \u00A0 9. The more parents tell us how great being one is, the less we believe them. It&amp;#039;s the equivalent of someone texting you every five minutes urging you to come to the Best. Party. Ever. If the party&amp;#039;s so great already, why do you need us there too? \u00A0 10. We worry about changing our mind when it&amp;#039;s too late. But that&amp;#039;s not the same as not knowing what we want right now. You wouldn&amp;#039;t ask a pregnant woman, &amp;#039;But what if you change your mind when it arrives?&amp;#039; So respect the fact that we&amp;#039;re certain about our choice too. \u00A0 11. We&amp;#039;re not selfish. No-one ever said, &amp;#039;I really really don&amp;#039;t want a baby, but I&amp;#039;ll have one anyway, because it will make me a better person.&amp;#039; People have children because they want them, and we don&amp;#039;t have children because we don&amp;#039;t. And being a parent might involve you putting someone other than yourself first, but that someone is basically a genetic extension of you. \u00A0 12. The first thing everyone says when they find out you don&amp;#039;t want children is, &amp;#039;Who&amp;#039;ll look after you when you&amp;#039;re old?&amp;#039; The honest answer is, &amp;#039;OH GOD, WHAT IF I DIE ALONE AND MY BODY ISN&amp;#039;T FOUND FOR A MONTH?&amp;#039; so don&amp;#039;t ask. Please. \u00A0 13. Dating is really hard. We appreciate that we&amp;#039;re lucky to have time on our side, but most men want a family \u2013 it&amp;#039;s what we&amp;#039;re programmed to do, after all. Finding one willing to forgo that, and ignore the propaganda that women who don&amp;#039;t want children are hard-hearted monsters, is tough. \u00A0 14. We don&amp;#039;t mind picking up the slack at work when mums need to leave early or an emergency crops up. The vast majority of women are happy to be supportive when colleagues are juggling work and children. Life&amp;#039;s hard enough without in-fighting. But we also totally expect you to find a babysitter when we throw our Puppy Shower. \u00A0 15. We&amp;#039;re jealous of your ginormous boobs. And that you can go to Disneyland without embarrassment. MORE FROM ROSIE: &amp;quot;DATING IS HARD WHEN YOU DON&amp;#039;T LIKE MUSIC&amp;quot; THAT TIME ROSIE WENT ON FIRST DATES &amp;quot;SEX IS LIKE BISCUITS. YOU HAVE A CHOICE&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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