Original post by SaucissonSecCyShe doesn't have to 'not be able to have kids' -you make it sound a bit like the only woman not to is deficient- Plenty of women manage their fertility and will have far more sex than just the kids they have. She could be healthy, attractive but just have other priorities and if there is enough ambitions to keep you going, and interests in common, really kids could be a hindrance, especially if you discover you can have good sex with her on the pill and no condoms.
I don't need therapy about contraception but I di avoid someone who I was very attracted to and had great compatibility with to be with, but the attraction was so much I just felt sure i'd want it without the condom, and I thought how beautiful the kid would be, we were so matched, but I also thought, however great the match was, I am not in the position to have a kid and I know I would regret the heaviness of it and how it impinged on my lfe. I want companionship, mental stimulation, and the sex that people have seemingly thoght for so many years I could have without concieving a kid-that was what I was supposed to be doing in my twenties, I kept being stigmatised for being single, I was, in people close to me's view, really missing out on sex, but definitely NOT missing out on having a child, my parents give me the impression wanting to be a dad as a form of resolution or identity to your life is sad, and in retrospect I see they are right, it's crazy, and if I went on an unprotected principle there could be absurd numbers of kids beyond my financial range, even one is, so irresponsible. And do I want to bugger off and leave a akid, the thought that one of hher boyfriends would parent it, no way-so it logically has to be, to enjoy contraceptive sex-but I think also logically, if it's sad to have a kid really young and not enjoy all that, why should it then flip to being sad to not having a kid when you're older? It's almost like there comes a point where you have to have at least that one to validate yourself, have purpose, or not die alone...this isn't my thinking at all. To me there is nothing sad, you just have to be on one end of the spectrum or the other for it to make sense. You either accept supressing the 'natural' reprodictive type of sex and use contraception all the way, or you always risk it. Clearly it can't be the latter so iut has to be the former. The only thing that is 'sad' about this in my view is if you have nothing else to interest you, or you think it's so terrible to die without a kid or you want them to care fro you when old(selfish)-but with contraception in usage, surely if a couple has interests in common stimulates each other, knows the cost and responsibility of hvaing a child, the tiring nature of it, how it interrupts their interests and sex life, it seems pretty positive the case for not having one to me.