I escaped motherhood

I escaped motherhood

I never wanted to be a mother. I wanted adventure!

Worst nightmare

Being a mother was my greatest nightmare I thought I wouldn’t escape.

Where I come from

In Russia, a woman’s only purpouse in life is to breed and serve a man.

Today

I am grateful to myself for taking the steps that gave me the life I have today. I have what I always wanted — adventure!

I sailed away to be free

childfree, Elena Vaytsel

To get onto a sailboat and disappear was the only way I could live my life unmolested by my society. I come from Russia. In my country, pregnancy, child-raring and serving a man for life is a woman’s only destiny. You are a freak for even conceiving the alternative.

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