Terry Prone: Not every woman wants children — even some who already have them

She is a model mother. She loves her two children dearly. And she wishes she had never given birth to them.

When she had her own babies, it confirmed her every dread. Nothing would ever be the same again. For a minimum of two decades, her life would be subordinated to theirs. Maybe longer. File photo

She has considered divorce, despite feeling undented affection for her husband. 

She has never raised the possibility with him because she has not worked out how it could be done without crushing a good man. How she sees it is that it would be an affirmation rather than a rejection of his goodness, but she understands that it would be difficult to make him see it that way.