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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally I think it's a myth that you need to be 100% sure about having kids.  I say this as someone who was not 100% about the first or the second, and I am thrilled about both decisions.

However, I did base my decision on the following:

-- I have a DH who is a full partner
-- We have the financial resources
-- I'm not someone who wallows in regret. I make a decision and I make the best of it.

Don't even think about sibling relationships, or having "an heir and a spare" as others on DCUM will say.

There is no wrong decision.[/quote]

OP here. Thanks for this. DH is definitely a full partner and we have the resources to do it, just not with the flexibility regarding schooling, vacations, and savings that we’d like. It’s not that we can’t afford two kids; it’s that we can’t afford two kids (money, time, and energy wise) in the way we would want to do it.[/quote]

PP here and I hear you.  If we'd stuck with one, DS would be in private school right now instead of public.  Our lives would have been easier in some ways.

That theoretical life isn't any better than the life I have now -- just different. And I'd be happy either way.[/quote]

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