Trying to avoid eye contact, I mustered up the courage to admit something.
‘I don’t ever want children,’ I confessed to my date John, now 40, in 2016.
A traditional African man, with a huge extended family just like me, he was in shock.
‘Maybe we can change that,’ he sniggered.
Only, I didn’t have the heart to tell him that I was lying through my teeth.
I wanted children more than anything else in the world.
However, the sad truth was that it was highly unlikely that I’d ever be able to conceive naturally – news that had immediately sent me into a deep depression.
Always in a huge amount of pain during my period, something that started in my late 20s, my whole body would ache from my head to my toes.
After being diagnosed with PCOS in October 2013, I was told that it was highly likely my fertility
