These are women who want to have children, and stating they want as much in a dating profile is evidenced in that.

A woman who doesn’t have children doesn’t suddenly give up on that intention when she is over 40.

Some of these women are professionals who never got around to having children earlier in life.

A woman who has spent a considerable amount of time working on her career and climbing up a corporate ladder, has a tendency to push back her desire to have children.

Before she knows it, she is in her 40s.

Though delayed, her desire to have children remains.

Besides, although it is harder for women to conceive in their 40s, women in their 40s remain biologically capable of getting pregnant and carrying a baby to term.

Moreover, there are women who have had partners that they struggled to conceive with.

These are women who were in these relationships for years, hoping to conceive, and it never happened.

Now she is in her 40s, she hasn’t given up on the hope that she conceives and becomes a mother one day.

Given that her doctor tells her she is fertile enough to conceive, she is hoping that she wasn’t the one at fault for not conceiving in relationships she has had in the past.

This makes her believe that she shouldn’t give up on having children, and that her exes were at fault for her inability to conceive when she was younger.

Being on dating apps gives her the hope that amongst the throngs of dating options that exist on these platforms, there is a guy she is capable of conceiving babies with.

Take note that a good number of women who state that they “want children” in their dating profiles have been in and out of using dating apps over the years.

These are women who started online dating in their twenties or thirties.

They would get matched with a guy, and get into relationships that lasted several months or a few years that didn’t work out.

This brought these women back to dating apps.

The next match occurs, she hits it off with the guy, gets into a relationship with him, and history repeats itself.

The relationship doesn’t work out.

Consequently, she is back on dating apps and the cycle continues.

Unfortunately, too many people on dating apps develop an attitude that the grass is greener on the other side.

Given the sheer volume of dating options on dating apps, it’s too tempting to believe that there is someone better waiting.

With this mindset, people who get into relationships are too willing to sneakily get back on dating apps to see what’s out there.

Inevitably, their relationships suffer, resulting in a breakup.

This is what has led to her being on and off on dating apps over the years.

She has had to go through relationships failing, thanks to her previous partners having a mentality that the grass is greener on the other side.

It was never her intention to get into her 40s without having had children.

From the first day she signed up on dating apps as a woman in her twenties or thirties, she had stated that she “wants children” in her dating profile.

Now that she has had several failed relationships with previous matches, and been on dating apps off and on over the years, her goal to have children hasn’t changed.

Aside from this, there are women over 40 on dating apps who never wanted children.

For many years, she lived with this mentality.

She went on elaborate vacations, explored new hobbies, obtained multiple academic degrees, made many life-long friends from all over the world, etc.

Unexpectedly, as she got older, the luster of living a single life wore off.

She saw how happy her own friends who had gotten married and had children were.

Suddenly, the joy of hopping on a plane and going on yet another vacation as a single person was no longer as appealing.

Now that she is middle-aged, everything has changed.

She wants children.

Her mortality has caught up with her.

She doesn’t want to die without leaving a legacy or experiencing the unconditional love of her own offspring.