Amy Roullier is a British writer and author of Silent Reflections of a Fragile Heart. Through her blog, she challenges the negative stereotypes surrounding being single, while candidly sharing her experiences with mental health, personal losses, and the complex, often misunderstood realities of adulthood.
I’d always hoped intuition would kick in with age with a resolute answer to this question, but I feel more confused than ever about whether or not I want to have children. If you’d asked me a few years back at 35, I’d have responded with a fairly confident, ‘No’. It wasn’t so much a feeling that I didn’t want children, more that I’d never felt strongly enough up to …
When I entered my early thirties newly divorced and freshly single, being on my own seemed to carry this automatic notion that I was failing at life. I felt I should be miserable with my single situation because there seemed this instant pity the moment I told anyone that I was single in my thirties. All those sympathetic looks and, “Don’t worry, you’ll find someone soon,” style conversations started to …
