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I think it's fine, and he's having cold feet. You don't need to lead a boring suburban life with kids, anyway. I was raised in Paris ;-)

The opposite can be true too. 
My husband talked about kids on the first date. He really wanted them. But when they came, he didn't know how to interact with them at all, and I was the primary caregiver. I was fine with that, but it's amusing that in his mind, he thought coming home from work, kissing his kids goodnight and paying all the many child-related bills was being a good father... just like his father before him. He's a doctor, and talks a good game about feminism, etc, but when push comes to shove, he really wants the pretty stay at home wife taking care of house and kids.
Now the kids are teens, he does interact with them more, tutors them in math and science, talks about investing and history/geopolitical events with them. It's been nice to see. He's just not a little kid person.

So just go ahead, OP. Don't wait for infertility to rear its ugly head. We chose to have kids very early, and it was a good thing, because I was hit with secondary infertility due to all sorts of health issues in my late 30s.
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