re: Anyone else struggle with the decision for kids/no kids?

28, ha! I've got boots older than you!

It's not too late, in fact I'd say it's still too early - and it's not all bad to wait on having kids. I was 101% dead damn certain that I didn't want to ever have kids. At 50 my wife (who's ten yrs younger) says "guess what!". I curled up in a fetal position and mumbled "oh shite, oh shite, oh shite" non-stop for a couple days. I'm not going to belabor the path from there to now, but my little girl is the joy of my life. I just got back from putting her to bed. We don't EVER say she was an "accident" because God sure knew what He was doing and His timing was right.

I often reflect on how I wish I had the same energy to devote to her now that I did in my 20's and 30's and I wonder if I haven't short-changed her in that way. At the same time I know that how I was then I would have wrecked her emotionally with my own lack of patience and general immaturity and put her in therapy for life. All things considered, take the time of your life when you're more at ease with who you are vs lots of energy - if you can do both at the same time, good on ya! Truth be told, if I was 10 yrs younger, I'd want another one.

My wife used to say "let's have a baby and I'll bet you'll turn around and like being a father". That's one helluva gamble but it turned out she was right - she was right for the me-in-my-50's, but probably wouldn't have been right 20-some yrs earlier. It's such on overused cliche but I really cannot imagine life without my little girl.

tl/dr: you've got time yet, don't rush it but if you're not as stoutly against it as I was then it will change your life in all he right ways. It's not easy, but nothing worthwhile is.

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WTF is there to live for after 50 if you don't have children? Stuff?

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Kindly frick yourself

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If you're shitty people, get fixed.

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Shame your parents didn't heed this advice

Ive never struggled with this ever.

Ive never wanted kids.

Second-best decision I’ve ever made, after never getting married.

Let the haters hate. It’s the perfect situation for me.

I say if you're struggling with the decision then you should do it. I'm 40 with a two year old and love every second of it.

Best part of my day is seeing him in the morning. Though I admit it's really nice when we put him down for the night.

I tell people it's like having that friend that is just nonstop fun. There's always something going on and you enjoy every second of it, but when they leave you just sit back and feel so good to just relax.

It's tons of work, but I wouldn't give it up for anything.

For me it has a lot to do with career. Time getting there and dedication to it once there. If not for that, I'd definitely have kids and sooner. I want time to squeeze in not having children while married. But then I think about how being more financial stable may help ease the stress of parenting and its ability to makeup for the advantages of time. If I had problems staying in shape and new I wouldn't be able to be as involved I'd be in more of a rush to decide

thanks. I walk on a wire every minute of the day when I'm awake thinking of my son. It's a living hell. My faith in God is really the only thing keeping me from going over the hill.

I don't have kids. Wife didn't want kids when we married. I do regret it some days. But this world is declining rapidly, sort of glad I don't have kids who have to deal with it.

best job you'll ever have as a man, is being dad