I'm about 90% CF. My reasons for being childfree are: * I can not deal with young children. Infants outright disgust/repulse me and I have a low tolerance for children under the age of 5. I can deal a little better when they can communicate what they want and how they feel. * I am an introvert who needs silence/solitude to recharge. If I go too long without it, I tend to get snappish initially and then go into a sort of anxiety/emotional overload. * I have no/little maternal instinct. * I too suffer from anxiety/depression and have a history of mental illness on both sides of my family. I have no desire to pass this on or inflict whatever trauma might come from having a parent with such issues on a child. * I am a bit emotionally constipated, particularly with anger. I have a long/slow-burning fuse but it leads to TNT. I tend to bottle my anger and the rare times I actually express it, I get pissed. * I'm not too comfortable saying "I love you" to even family I do love and that is something a child needs to hear frequently and with sincerity. * There are many other reasons but these are the main ones that display why I believe I should not have/children and leave out the reasons why I just plain don't want to such as I'm "selfish" and want to travel and have nice things.

My 10% comes from the following reasons: * I have that selfish desire/society-influenced life expectation of continuing my bloodline. * I am aware that though it is unlikely, I might very well find a partner that I fall in love with and want to spend the rest of my life with. It is a remotely, but still existent, possibility that it could turn out that I would feel my life would not be complete unless we had/raised children together.

To summarize, I'm 100% CF in the sense that I will not be getting pregnant and am even considering sterilization or long term birth control (even though I'm gay). But I'm still 10% open to "if I ever found the right partner and we both truly felt a need to for her to give birth to or for us to adopt kids, then I would but only under those circumstances."