I am embracing childlessness with empty arms and an open heart - with God’s help

This week is World Childless Week, which aims to raise awareness of the childless not by choice community and enable every childless person to tell their story with confidence. Margot Flowers shares her story.

I am a writer and tutor. I found faith at five, learning about God’s unconditional love from my mother. Despite expecting marriage and parenthood, I’m now a single, childless Christian woman, navigating a difficult spiritual landscape after ending a thirteen-year relationship that nearly led to marriage three years ago.

I recently went on holiday alone to Greece, and the event triggered feelings about my childless state, from the moment I got to the check in. I was met with the following conversation: