"I struggle with Mother’s Day as a woman who can’t have kids"

Existential grief v cheap tricks.

Original article: Dear Abby, Jan. 30, 2025

My take: The letter-writer is a 43-year-old woman who cannot have children. This is so “difficult and painful” that she hasn’t discussed it with anyone, and doesn’t want to.

Mother’s Day is the worst. “Strangers assume that I’m a mother,” she writes, “and family overcompensates for the fact I’m not one.”

She appr…