Re: Why did you have children?
Ah well we reaped the riches, so really we got the good deal, my niece lives close to us and we help out with her youngster, and my nephews are great young men who come home as often as they can. So lovely all of them, and we are just so lucky to have them.Re: Why did you have children?
Re: Why did you have children?
We got married because we were in love, and from love comes children, and yes we would do it all again, even though we have been together for 54 years.Re: Why did you have children?
I didn't think I was maternal at all until I had my first child and then I was surprised at how I felt. I am sure I could have had a fulfilled life without them though and don't know if I would have had regrets longer term if we had had no children. I really couldn't make my mind up definitely one way or the other and my daughter wasn't really planned, but we didn't do anything to avoid having a child once we were settled and financially secure. I was ambivalent about the whole issue and we had gone on happily for about five years without. At the period in our lives we thought - if it happens it happens and that's fine and if it doesn't that's fine as well. No great urge to have a child at all on my part and I didn't appreciate what having a baby would be like or realise how it would change our lives. How can anyone know what they are in for? Was that naive and irresponsible? I am not sure. Our second child was planned and our son is about five years older than my daughter. I stumbled through the whole parenting process and now I am stumbling through the grandparenting process. We cannot always choose exactly what we want to happen or how and when. On balance, I think we have been lucky, blessed or whatever, and had our share of good fortune, but I might have thought that we were fortunate if we didn't have any.Re: Why did you have children?
I lost our first child, who was planned. We were devastated by our loss. We were the blessed by more. When they reached their teen years I wondered why we had bothered They have come full circle and they are all lovely human beings.Thread Tools | |
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