Why I Have No Regrets About Aging Solo With No Kids

Jin Xia

(Originally published at The Ethel/AARP)

I didn’t expect to be single and childless with 70 only a couple of years away. I thought I’d marry late, in my mid-30s, to my soulmate, and we’d have two children and two fulfilling careers.

Love came and went. None of the men I was involved with were candidates for Mr. Kirschenbaum. Would they try to clip my…