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[quote=Anonymous]I want(ed) a lot of kids: 3-4 or even maybe 5. My husband would have been fine with 0-1 kids but was ok with having 2. We have 2 who are ages 5 and 3. I still long for more kids/a bigger family and my husband is still firmly against having more so we probably won’t. It occasionally makes me sad that we’ll likely never have the big family I envisioned, I do realize that practically speaking having 2 kids makes life much easier and simpler than it would be with more kids.

Basically, my husband has a practical, logical approach and my perspective is more emotional. I love kids, love being a parent, and always imagined a big family with lots of love and warmth, I saw a family life that was kind of a managed chaos, messy but fun. My husband likes things to be more quiet, calm, and orderly and he values alone time much more than I do. We balance each other well in many ways and he’s a wonderful spouse so I try not to focus on what we don’t have (the other kids I’d like to have in our family) and instead think of how fortunate we are to have each other and our 2 wonderful kids.[/quote]

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