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As there are a lot of you posting here and many are pregnant I thought you would be an ideal audience.

Please give your thoughts if possible. Thankyou.

I have a house and two cats with my boyfriend of just over two years we are both 26 well just about. Not all been plain sailing, had a few issues and problems but are working through these and always maintain that we both want a future together and are very much in love. He is a very affectionate, loving and sweet man. He is thoughtful and sensitive.

We are in disagreement over having children. He is not sure he wants them and says he has never been into kids or ever really thought about having them. He says its not a NO but seeing families doing thing together just dosnt interest him. His had a strange up bringing and was brought up by just his dad and rarely saw his mum. He says maybe he will change his mind but cant saw he def wants them.

The reason It wasnt really a major prob until now was cause althoug in the early days when he talked about us getting married, i would say "no cos i want kids and you dont" and he said things like, well it would be a shame for two such good looking people not to reproduce etc and just kept saying this sort of thing,and how he wouldnt want to get rid of his precious sporty car, all lihgt hearted talk. You know not a straight no or yes. I wasnt really thinking about it seriously at the time being 23 but now we have our house and seeing others around me settle i have started thinking about it more, and so am getting a bit concerned and wondering what i should do? I really want to cause i am happy or do i cut my losses?

Should i just chill out? I did say i DONT want them now, and have never spoken about this to him in a pressuring manor. I have told him i would like to have a child maybe at 30 but he says he cant imagine it cos its only 4years away.
What to do?

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I'm sorry though I would choose children over him any day.

If you stay with this man and hope he will change his mind and yous can have children by the time your 30, it may be too late.

If he still doesn't want them your menopause might start early and you wont have a family of your own.

What if something happens between the two of you in the future [i.e. Divorce] you will be left with nothing.


Good luck

Kids and your future


I would just wait. You say you do not want kids now - so if you love the guy just wait and see what happens. You are thinking about may be in 4 years time and although he thinks that its not that far away, its further away than he thinks and a lot can change in that amount of time. If you love him then just wait until you have decided that you really want to start trying for definite.

By the time he reaches thirty he may have mellowed out abit and be more keen to settle down. I wouldn't be so concerned about it now if you are not considering havings kids for another 4 years.



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