"You are in amazing company, becoming a Choice Mom. Tens of thousands of single women make the decision every year to build a family without a partner. A growing number of them -- as I hear from the membership requests to my private Choice Mom discussion board -- are leaving relationships with partners who don't want to be parents, or who are not good role models. Many have been enmeshed in careers and post-graduate education. They find themselves in their 30s, finally able to take a breath, and realizing they are running out of time to start a family.

In fact, I recently met with 30 of those women in one of your hometowns, Austin. We talked with each other about how hard it was for many of them to conceive. How they were getting organization and stress relief back into their life. How they were leaving corporate careers to try to find flexibility in a home-based business, and finding ways to pay for the health insurance that required. Several of them expressed gratitude for the amazing gift that adoption has been in building a family.

As always, at these Choice Mom events, we find remarkable joy and strength in connecting with each other. One woman at my event in D.C. said: " It was so great being in a room full of like-minded women and realizing that we were all beautiful, intelligent, independent, successful ladies. Before I found this community I just felt like I was so alone in this choice or some kind of societal anomaly."

Welcome to the journey, and the community!

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