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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The other thread got me thinking. I have a couple friend who are successful, financially stable, and in a good healthy marriage. They don’t want kids. The rest of our group does, and we always assumed they would have kids, but they are happy without them. When asked, they always list reasons why they don’t want kids or simply they just didn’t want them. They can easily afford kids and childcare. It seems very unnatural to me as a woman to not want kids. I went back and forth for a little bit and it felt weird picturing my life without kids. I wonder if she is truly happy. I worry they will get bored and have no one else to love. Anyone else have childless friends like this? [/quote]

Very few of my pre-kid couple friends want to have kids. Some probably will end up having them, but they all seem very happy with their lives. Some have pets, some travel a lot, some work a ton, people find things that make them happy that aren't kids.

I also don't really worry about whether my friends get bored. That's their problem unless they ask my advice and "have kids" isn't what I'd recommend.[/quote]

Also, I have it on good authority that people with kids sometimes get bored, too. In fact I hear that going to 18 soccer games a week can be quite tedious.

Nothing against kids. I love my nieces and nephews to the moon. But I have never once wished that I had to spend more time going to and from daycare or all weekend at another kid birthday party. [/quote]

I was very rarely bored before I had kids, because I could mostly control what I did with my free time.  I am sometimes bored playing Candyland or watching Paw Patrol or sitting on the sidelines of a little kids' soccer game or one of the many tedious things that we do with our kids because we love them.  [/quote]

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