turningpoint's commentsComments On: EverythingArticles Blogs Journals Photos created by: Everyoneturningpoint My Spouse Doesn't Want a Child - Blog Entry17 Jan 2008 10:21 AM You know, I haven't thought about that. But I doubt it would be a sufficient substitute for me. Not sure if that would satisfy a need or fuel the desire... I could try to make that enough. Try to transform my mind to accept that as my lot in life, to be able to affect more kids by not having my own... but I'm afraid that desire would never be fully put to rest. I don't want to wake up one day (when it's too late) and say, "Gee, I wish I would've..." And yet I don't want my partner to give in, because I believe not wanting kids is a core part of who they are. And like the article said, you don't want to have a situation where they say, "I never wanted to have a kid in the first place - this was YOUR idea." What I want to do and what I feel I should do are two very different things. It's this gal-darn moral code I feel compelled to live by. But something needs to change, whether it's me or my situation. This can't go on forever. My Spouse Doesn't Want a Child - Blog Entry16 Jan 2008 11:00 AM We did. And at the time it wasn't an issue for me. Now, five and a half years later, it's becoming an issue. |
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