Yesterday I had a mom shame me for working out at the gym when I told her I don’t have kids.

I’m 28 years old, I don’t have kids and I don’t want any. I go to the gym regularly for my physical and mental health. I go to a globo gym chain and they have playland where parents can drop off their kids while they work out. <br><br>I seen this woman around my age working out near me every night and she would always make small talk with me. She always watches me when I lift and I assume she’s trying to figure out what I’m doing since she doesn’t lift but she watches me consistently to the point I feel uncomfortable. I don’t mind giving advice but this was getting excessive and I felt like I was being gawked at. She’s never approached me to talk about the workouts though. Anyways. She made a small comment about how I lift heavy and I told her I wish I could lift more. FLUFF PRESS AND CURL. I kid you is. So she asks me if I have kids and I said no. And she said “oh you don’t have to take care of anyone but yourself”. I say yes. She literally looks at me with disgust in her face and says “oh so you’re selfish”. I was absolutely floored. I asked her “why would you say that?” And she said “well you can do whatever you want whenever you want to and you don’t care about anyone else but yourself.”<br><br>I asked her if it was wrong to be single and not have kids. She said no but it’s selfish of me because I’m focusing on myself and my health which I guess is different than being a mom and focusing on your kids and your health? I dunno. She made me feel extremely bad and I just felt like I was being judged so hard. I focused on my workout and ignored her after that and got out of there. But man, that was annoying. Am I selfish for not wanting kids and focusing on myself?