Married...without children. Anyone else?

Jody Treadway

Jody Treadway

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Just to start a little thread on a slow evening.

Happily married 7 years, both of us are mid-late 30's, I've been snipped, she can't have kids, so we don't.
I never wanted kids and neither did my wife.

Anyone else out there in our shoes? Thoughts on it either way?
 
Me and my wife don't want kids, we love having them around just as long as mommy and daddy take them home. It is much more fun to be able to spoil other people's kids. My reason is I can't see having a kid if I still act like one myself. So we just have animals to fill our home with us. If the Lord gave us one we would love it with all we have and cherish it always but we don't plan on having any.
 
42 and 35 here . I raised stepkids in my first marriage so did she .Now we have one retard of a boxer and time to do whatever we like.
 
Just turned 41, wife's a littte older, been married 11 years, guess just wasn't meant to be and that's ok.
 
I completely understand and respect the idea. I have no intention what so ever to have kids.
 
36 & 35. Both of us thought we would have kids before we met each other. Since we got married nearly 10.5yrs ago we've been traveling a lot and always do as we please, when we please. We love our freedom, take full advantage of it and do most things together. We don't spend many nights sitting on the couch. Have two loving dogs that stay outside and do a fine job of patrolling the property. Never a problem leaving them for a wk or two to watch over the place thanks to good friends in our area.

To everyone with kids, congratulations! Hope and pray you raise them right!:beer:
 
Married for 4 years together for 6. None yet and no plans really. Have my dog curled up to me as i type and hers is curled up with her
 
No kids, we just turned 50-ish.

1) It's not my job to populate the world.
2) You can't count on kids anymore to take care of you when you are old and decrepit.
3) I get to retire early (mostly this year).
4) I can by one heck of a boat for what a couple of college funds would have cost me.
 
I have two.
I wouldn't take a billion dollars for either one, but I wouldn't give a nickle for another one either.
I could not imagine life without them, but I also respect you decision.

One thing is fer sure ...... cheaper without them than with them!

Matt
 
Dual Income No Kid's?
 
Not officially married yet...been together 10 years. I come from 5 kids, she comes from 4. We always wanted a big family. However, the older I get, the more I realize it's nice only having to worry about me (and her). At 28 there are a few good breeding years left, do I want to, meh...am I against it, meh. If I got one past the goalie, would I love it and support it...absolutely. I do feel like I should try to offset the dumbf**ks breeding though, it's like the movie Idiocracy is coming to fruition.
 
We have two kids, can't imagine not having them. That being said, I've been snippered to be sure we only ever have two kids. :lol:

The sad thing is that a lot of the people who do not have kids and do not want kids, are the ones that SHOULD be having kids because we need to offset the idiots who should NOT be having kids who are popping them out like a Pez dispenser. :lol:
 
Blaze said:
The sad thing is that a lot of the people who do not have kids and do not want kids, are the ones that SHOULD be having kids because we need to offset the idiots who should NOT be having kids who are popping them out like a Pez dispenser. :lol:
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That's good stuff right there! lol
 
My life sucked growing up, therefore I had no time / no money / no friends to even think about kids... 14 schools / probably 3 times that in apartments / trailers / houses bouncing around from eviction to eviction before I graduated living with my single mom who did what she could. No time to make friends, much less a wife until it was way too late.

I made the ultimate sacrifice to make something of myself, my mom and my brother. Finally found the one and married at my age of 38 / her 43 at the time. She's unable.

We talked adoption but there's so many kids in her family from her brother's and sisters that we have more than we need running around as it is. I've spoke to several couples who are trying to adopt and the chances are slim to almost none. Plus, I realized that if we adopted, it would be younger than even it's 3'rd cousins. And me now at age 43, I'd be 60 watching it graduate.
 
38 years married and no kids. currently "sink". it'd be nice to be "dink" tho.
14 goats and 30-40 chickens, 4 dogs and 6-7 cats presently.
we got a cat name dink.
while its nice to have disposable income as we get older
its hard not to feel that we've missed something
in life without kids. just never was in the cards for us.
wifey had female problems early on.
 
UTfball68 said:
Not officially married yet...been together 10 years. I come from 5 kids, she comes from 4. We always wanted a big family. However, the older I get, the more I realize it's nice only having to worry about me (and her). At 28 there are a few good breeding years left, do I want to, meh...am I against it, meh. If I got one past the goalie, would I love it and support it...absolutely. I do feel like I should try to offset the dumbf**ks breeding though, it's like the movie Idiocracy is coming to fruition.
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It is. Go to Wal-Mart some time. You can already see it in the polls in November.

As for you others, just because you or your wife may not be able adoption is always cool. It's more of a pain in the ass now but I think it's worth it. Look at me :flipoff2:
 
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