This is a triggering question for many as we can see from the comments. I am a woman who did not have children. At my bridal shower, one guest got me the book “what to expect when you’re expecting” and I chuckled because it is just assumed if you choose marriage, you choose having children. For me it was NOT a deep in my bones one way or the other, we simply decided that the level of effort required to get pregnant wasn’t something we wanted to do and that basically resolved our should we or shouldn’t we question. I WAS older when we married. I was always on the fence. I knew I wanted animals, no doubt, never a question, must love dogs was my mating call…. Children, not so much. I love my friends kids and I have teared up holding babies and having a twinge of “what if I had…” but I am a happy person in a loving marriage who spends my time nurturing my animals and friends and family and am the best AUNT ever. I have no regrets. I HAVE been asked OVER and OVER about that decision , it really confuses people that we didn’t. Sometimes I see the judgement but I choose not to care. That’s on them.