Married 10 years with no kids
My wife and I have been married nearly 10 years now. We've talked often about having a child, but we're honestly just so scared of the world we're in right now. We're pretty comfortable in life with one of us working with a good wage and the other running a successful small business.
The problem we have is just the whole outlook of it all. Kids glued to phones constantly, The internet being the way it is. Services are being ripped apart, and I fear we're now at the stage it's kind of now or never. We do want them, but we honestly just don't like the world we're bringing them into.
We're both '90s kids and just feel like the world we grew up in is absolutely lost to phones, screens, and madness. We know it's the way of the world right now, but part of us just doesn't want to bring them into all of this. It's not like it used to be, and as much as we'd try to limit the use of all this new tech like AI, we feel it's just all a bit much right now.
So what's it really like? I know having kids is the most rewarding thing in the world, but fucking hell, it feels grim right now. I think we'd be fine not having them, but the pressure of our parents crying out for grandchildren is certainly mounting.
Also, a few beers in, sorry for any grammatical errors and rambling.
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