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I’m Childless—And Unashamed 

17/11/202317/11/2023 Steph Penny Leave a comment Survivng Childlessness

There seems to be a lot of social media shaming childless people at present.  They mock us for ageing alone.  They point out how selfish we are.  They bemoan the future of the Church, saying its decline is imminent without procreating couples—as though the Church were on the fragile precipice of implosion and childless people […]

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Single AND Content? In This Economy? 

21/07/202321/07/2023 Steph Penny 2 Comments Surviving Singledom

It’s funny how contentment can shift as time passes. For years, I was content being single. People around me were getting married, having babies, trialling separation. I felt genuinely happy for them (or sympathetic, in the case of separation), without even a glimmer of jealousy or discontentment. Occasionally I felt lonely, living solo in my […]

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Not Alone and Other Stories

03/02/202303/02/2023 Steph Penny Leave a comment Book reviews, Surviving Chronic Illness

I recently read the Stories of Life anthology, Bones and Blue Eyes,* mostly because (shameless self-plug alert) I had two stories published in it, but also because I was genuinely interested in other people’s stories of everyday faith.  The book was a blessing. There was a vast mixture of stories short and long, telling tales when […]

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Real Family

11/02/202211/02/2022 Steph Penny Leave a comment Surviving Singledom

Ugh. It’s Valentine’s Day again. The time when everyone worships at the altar of dating, romance and marriage. The time when talk of ‘family’ means you have to have a partner (and usually children too). I can’t stand it.  And I’m one of the marrieds.  My heart goes out to single people this time of […]

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Childless-By-Forced-Choice

19/03/202119/03/2021 Steph Penny Leave a comment Survivng Childlessness

Childless-not-by-choice. Childless-by-circumstance. Childfree. There are many terms used to describe those who do not have children. It can be hard to know where one fits in the no-kids community, let alone society in general. A childless friend once told me I am childless-by-circumstance because of my medical condition. They said it was a unique circumstance […]

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