I recently moved to Cheyenne for a job promotion. I've been struggling to get used to the culture, since it's VERY famblee oriented in my office, and people my age are always going on about their kyds. I met a woman who I clicked with immediately- she's probably ten years my senior, but we share so many hobbies and interests it's uncanny.
Fast forward to yesterday afternoon: someone brings their babeeee to the office. I try to avoid it at every turn, but someone comes to my area and asks if I want to hold it. I've gotten to the point of many members on this board and just shook my head, giving the straight answer of 'I don't hold babies.'
As I'm getting ready to head home, the woman I connected with comes by and says "So, I heard a rumor that would make me like you even more if it's true." Word had gotten around the office within an hour of my distancing myself between babies, and how I wasn't fond of them, apparently. She went on to say whenever someone brought their kyd in, she made it her business to run the opposite direction. For the first time in real life, I asked someone if they were childfree.
"Hell yes I am," she looked incredulous that I knew the term. "Childfree by choice all the way." I think I finally made a new friend here, and I'm so excited it's a person who is established in the lifestyle I've really come to identify as my own. Sorry for the novel, just wanted to share my joy at finding a CFer in the midwest :drkbddy