It's totally okay to nudge someone once they've got married and be like, “can't wait to see the babies”. Or to comment on a childless, partnerless, or unmarried person’s age with a knowing nod and soft, sad eyes….

My generation spent our entire lives growing up watching cartoons, shows and films that mapped out our life’s pathways: you're going to do this and you're going to do this and then you're going to end up a mother.

So when that’s not how life turned out, I was like, “heck, what do I do with all this time? What do I do so that I'm not just on an endless treadmill of work-home-tv-sleep for the next 60 years?”.

On The Common, you’re welcome as you are:

Maybe you wanted to become a parent and couldn't.

Maybe you’ve been apathetic, didn’t really know if you wanted to try (maybe you still don’t).

And maybe, you’ve just always known that parenthood wasn’t for you.

However you arrived here, I’d guess you’ve faced feelings, physical experiences, or hormonal reactions that fucked you up royally, in the moment. Just getting through the day in a society that bombards you with messaging everywhere that you are failing by not creating a child is tough.

It's so overwhelming that when it hits, you're back to square one every time - “I've made all the wrong choices, I've missed all my chances of being a success in life”.

Children give some people’s lives a meaning, but that doesn't mean to say that there's not meaning without.

On The Common we’ll explore and create a meaningful life.  Something that you dedicate yourself to without question.

The Common is where you can pull up a virtual bench and talk it through.

The beginning of it all - adulthood.
The complicated middle ground where time felt like it was running out.
The future filled with possible routes without a map to guide me.