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Men who chose to not have children, how did it go?

No kids. My wife thought I would change my mind at some point but I never did. I always told my wife that if she wants a kid for a while, any one of her sisters would be more than happy to loan us one of theirs. I jokingly...sort of...keep telling the nieces/nephews that if I out live my wife, I'm leaving whatever is left when I die to the one I like the most. I've made it easy on some of them and told them they don't have a chance so they can continue with their sour couldn't care less attitudes. 😁

A piece of advice, if you are unsure about having kids, then wait until you are sure what you want to do.
I doubt your superior alien DNA would mix with our neolithic genomes. Which is why you probably have not tried to procreate. That or, you don't know where to stick it.
 
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Ah I haven't seen that, interesting. Maybe the other thing is that some women literally just want to be a stay at home mom, but we basically told them they can't. And not to mention society looks down on it. But I have a buddy who just the other day was telling me that his wife mentioned she would be totally fine being a stay at home mom. It's a common feeling for a lot of women.


My wife would kill to be a stay at home mom, that would be her dream. Would be great for our kids and I could probably name the benefits to our family for 15 mins. Unfortunately with today’s society it’s almost impossible to live on just a single income.
 
This is something I’ve been thinking about for a while. I’m 34, been on the fence but thought if I met someone and got married, maybe 1 child. But today I realized how much easier life is without them and that I’m out on being a future father.

It’s no secret the COL in America continues to rise. You either grind to be able to buy a house a house and have the American dream with 2 kids and an SUV. Or you simply walk away and live an easier life. I find a lot of women around my age don’t want kids so dating isn’t a huge deal.

Any man out there choose to not have kids and regret it?
Have 4 kids! Best thing I have ever done. Wish I could have more but wife says no. Tried to talk her into adoption. No go. Wish I could freeze time. They grow up so fast. Got a pretty late start. 50yo with 17, 15, 10& 5yo. 1 girl. 3 boys. Love every second. Used to b very independent. Now. Not sure I ever want to be alone. I love them being around all the time.
 
I think a huge issue is modern women. Tatted up or the boss bitch type. Very promiscuous, usually liberal. A lot of it is against what the modern man wants in a wife/mother of his kids
There is more truth here than most are willing to admit. These women are called Alpha Widows. I'm not going into that subject any deeper because it sure to start a thread slide that will end in an avalanche. It is real and it is crippling relationships among young people.

It is also important to realize that society has had a massive shift in the last eighty years or so from agrarian, to production, and now this crap show service economy.

My dad had nine brothers and sisters. Was it because my grandma loved being perpetually pregnant? No, it was because they needed kids to work the farm and they had to build in redundancy. That's right, if a couple died you had extra. None of his brothers of sisters had more than four kids. Of those kids, I can't think of many that had more than two. Many have none.

The need for a large family isn't there anymore. In fact, it is punitive in many ways.
 
I’m 59, with two sons, 24 and 21. Got married at 28; wife and I struggled with fertility issues and were considering adoption when we got pregnant with our first. Our second was also a wonderful surprise. Four kids would have been awesome but with my wife’s problems with pregnancy (both were premature) I knew we were done after the second.

Children are a blessing but if you know it’s not for you then don’t have them. I have a cousin a few years younger than me who’s been married nearly as long as I have but he and his wife never had children. As far as I can tell they seem happy. Another cousin didn’t get married until he was 52; his wife had two kids from a previous marriage. He’s 65 now and enjoying the retired life as a step grandparent.

There’s really no wrong way to go about it as long as you’re content and satisfied with your life choices.
 
I think a huge issue is modern women. Tatted up or the boss bitch type. Very promiscuous, usually liberal. A lot of it is against what the modern man wants in a wife/mother of his kids
It's Christmas so I'm going to be as kind as I can be here - the above sounds like something an incel would say. Incels are usually younger guys who think they know the world, or what the "modern man" needs, and they usually have an odd dislike of women their own age. Incels see most women as "bitches" and/or "sluts." I don't think believing modern women are tatted up lib bitch whores is a healthy way to go through life but that's just me.

I know on a male dominated, nearly extinct site like this we like doing the whole, "ah hens, they drive us crazy, right?" thing but you're 34, slow down on thinking you know what modern men want and who modern women are.
 
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I’m 120 and been married twice, one daughter with my 2nd wife. Have 12 kids with other women while I was single. 4 sets of twins and 4 single, spent a lot of time watching games and activities in the upper areas of events, so I didn’t upset their mom’s. Expensive, would be an understatement, but worth every minute. Even if I never got to see them on holidays, birthdays or as much as I wanted.

Have all of them and my grandkids together for the first time tomorrow. I just hope I can remember most of their names. It’s not easy when there’s 40 or so total.

Hopefully, I can’t have anymore or find out I have any I wasn’t aware of. I already have grandkids older than my youngest daughter, she’s 8.
 
I’m 120 and been married twice, one daughter with my 2nd wife. Have 12 kids with other women while I was single. 4 sets of twins and 4 single, spent a lot of time watching games and activities in the upper areas of events, so I didn’t upset their mom’s. Expensive, would be an understatement, but worth every minute. Even if I never got to see them on holidays, birthdays or as much as I wanted.

Have all of them and my grandkids together for the first time tomorrow. I just hope I can remember most of their names. It’s not easy when there’s 40 or so total.

Hopefully, I can’t have anymore or find out I have any I wasn’t aware of. I already have grandkids older than my youngest daughter, she’s 8.
Cool story bro
 
slow down on thinking you know what modern men want and who modern women are.
I have a son and a daughter who have both talked about not knowing if they want to be parents or not so I’ve put quite a lot of thought into the issue. My daughter would likely be an incels nightmare because I’ve made sure she’s prepared for whatever life she decides she wants. I’ve put a big focus on personal finance, auto and home ownership, etc so she won’t ever feel she has to rely on someone else. It’s expected that I teach my son these things but not when it comes to daughters. That seems odd to me.

BTW, all my kids know that the most important thing to me is that they have fulfilling and happy lives, nothing more, nothing less.
 
It's Christmas so I'm going to be as kind as I can be here - the above sounds like something an incel would say. Incels are usually younger guys who think they know the world, or what the "modern man" needs, and they usually have an odd dislike of women their own age. Incels see most women as "bitches" and/or "sluts." I don't think believing modern women are tatted up lib bitch whores is a healthy way to go through life but that's just me.

I know on a male dominated, nearly extinct site like this we like doing the whole, "ah hens, they drive us crazy, right?" thing but you're 34, slow down on thinking you know what modern men want and who modern women are.
I can guarantee you Drew is the furthest thing from an incel.
 
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Personally embrace the simple living lifestyle. Love to travel and have the freedom to do whatever the F I want when I want which includes not raising kids in this shitty, chaotic, and often unpredictable world. Don’t like myself that much where I want to replicate myself. Never once regretted it. In fact, the older I get the more we realize it’s the right choice. Too expensive to raise kids these days. Could care less about an insignificant “legacy.”

Dogs >>>>>>kids. TS
 
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I can guarantee you Drew is the furthest thing from an incel.
lol yeah, first time I’ve been called that

I have no issue getting women, never have. I find most women are great. I just know of a lot of men that complain about the type I mentioned. Looking for a traditional woman these days is gonna be hard
 
lol yeah, first time I’ve been called that

I have no issue getting women, never have. I find most women are great. I just know of a lot of men that complain about the type I mentioned. Looking for a traditional woman these days is gonna be hard
..but you never know when you meet your Pam Beesley and settle down ;)
 
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This is something I’ve been thinking about for a while. I’m 34, been on the fence but thought if I met someone and got married, maybe 1 child. But today I realized how much easier life is without them and that I’m out on being a future father.

It’s no secret the COL in America continues to rise. You either grind to be able to buy a house a house and have the American dream with 2 kids and an SUV. Or you simply walk away and live an easier life. I find a lot of women around my age don’t want kids so dating isn’t a huge deal.

Any man out there choose to not have kids and regret it?
Having kids is the ONLY reason I was able to obtain what I did in the business world. So they are more than just a “libality on your freedom/fun”.

You do you man. I think your decision is correct. You don’t sound like you wouldn’t be a very good father. That’s not being disrespectful at all. It isn’t for everybody.

It takes a real one to get in the trenches and raise kids.
 
I can guarantee you Drew is the furthest thing from an incel.
I'm just going by his own words. He might be the best guy in the world but when you're online on Christmas Eve complaining that women are tatted up/boss bitch types who are very promiscuous and usually liberal, that's a red flag. Sorry, but it is. It's a weird view on an entire generation of women and most women seeing that as a view taken by a man wouldn't suddenly flock to him. Women usually don't like to be called promiscuous boss bitches, right?

He also "loved" a post earlier of someone saying their grandmother had several children because it needed to be that way. So you've got a 34 year old saying women are boss bitch whores with tats and he seems to agree that women need to have several children. Do women usually enjoy a man seeing them as breeders because that's how things might've been in the 1940s?

Outdated and/or bitter views towards women. That's what I saw so I pointed it out. Nothing more. If you're online, on Christmas Eve no less, calling a generation of the opposite sex insults, that's just an odd, red flag to me. Carry on.
 
I'm just going by his own words. He might be the best guy in the world but when you're online on Christmas Eve complaining that women are tatted up/boss bitch types who are very promiscuous and usually liberal, that's a red flag. Sorry, but it is. It's a weird view on an entire generation of women and most women seeing that as a view taken by a man wouldn't suddenly flock to him. Women usually don't like to be called promiscuous boss bitches, right?

He also "loved" a post earlier of someone saying their grandmother had several children because it needed to be that way. So you've got a 34 year old saying women are boss bitch whores with tats and he seems to agree that women need to have several children. Do women usually enjoy a man seeing them as breeders because that's how things might've been in the 1940s?

Outdated and/or bitter views towards women. That's what I saw so I pointed it out. Nothing more. If you're online, on Christmas Eve no less, calling a generation of the opposite sex insults, that's just an odd, red flag to me. Carry on.

If I saw women as only breeders, then why wouldn’t I want kids? That makes no sense. I clearly said young men I know and women under 40 have a very disconnected political and world view. And that’s one huge reason why the birth rate is going down as we were talking about. Stop taking what I said out of context.

Like me loving a post talking about back in the day, you had many children to work the farm. It was a post about how times have changed and it’s now unaffordable to have that many kids. Not a post about how women should be bred and stay in the kitchen. Your brain is elementary if that’s what you got out of that post

You’re also online on Christmas Eve and day arguing. Sounds like a red flag
 
Having kids is the ONLY reason I was able to obtain what I did in the business world. So they are more than just a “libality on your freedom/fun”.

You do you man. I think your decision is correct. You don’t sound like you wouldn’t be a very good father. That’s not being disrespectful at all. It isn’t for everybody.

It takes a real one to get in the trenches and raise kids.
No disrespect taken. I think being a father is much like lifting weights. If you’re not willing to go to war and get in the trenches to do those things, don’t do them cause the results won’t be of high quality

(Double bicep flex)
 
If I saw women as only breeders, then why wouldn’t I want kids? That makes no sense. I clearly said young men I know and women under 40 have a very disconnected political and world view. And that’s one huge reason why the birth rate is going down as we were talking about. Stop taking what I said out of context.

Like me loving a post talking about back in the day, you had many children to work the farm. It was a post about how times have changed and it’s now unaffordable to have that many kids. Not a post about how women should be bred and stay in the kitchen. Your brain is elementary if that’s what you got out of that post

You’re also online on Christmas Eve and day arguing. Sounds like a red flag
He inserts himself into every single thread and makes sure everyone knows how smart and morally superior he thinks he is. (Laughable)

Well, not the political thread. He talked a big game and then turned tail and ran never to be seen a again when the election went the wrong way for him. Total keyboard cowboy.
 
Having kids is the ONLY reason I was able to obtain what I did in the business world. So they are more than just a “libality on your freedom/fun”.

You do you man. I think your decision is correct. You don’t sound like you wouldn’t be a very good father. That’s not being disrespectful at all. It isn’t for everybody.

It takes a real one to get in the trenches and raise kids.

When people like you are so nasty about it being done your way or that you're a "real man", it only validates their reason to avoid your situation. NOBODY would be so nasty if they were really happy. Sux for you.
 
If I saw women as only breeders, then why wouldn’t I want kids? That makes no sense. I clearly said young men I know and women under 40 have a very disconnected political and world view. And that’s one huge reason why the birth rate is going down as we were talking about. Stop taking what I said out of context.

Like me loving a post talking about back in the day, you had many children to work the farm. It was a post about how times have changed and it’s now unaffordable to have that many kids. Not a post about how women should be bred and stay in the kitchen. Your brain is elementary if that’s what you got out of that post

You’re also online on Christmas Eve and day arguing. Sounds like a red flag
In what I quoted, you said the problem with modern women is, not that young men you know feel this way. You feel this way. I'm saying claiming women, in general, are bossy bitch, tatted up sluts appears to be an odd way of thinking about the opposite sex. Bragging about yourself and claiming people think you look like Wolverine is odd too. You don't need to prove anything here. I'm not claiming, on the internet no less, that people think I look like Christian Bale from Batman Begins. C'mon now. So you're Wolverine-lite with no problem getting women but you also think modern women are incredibly flawed, promiscuous bitches. I mean, what?

I hope you have a Merry Christmas. I just took issue with one thing you said, which is how you view a generation of people. It's an old world, out of date view imo. You're 34 but in that little snippet of your post, you sounded more like 74, verbally crapping on young women and how whatever you don't like right now, it's gotta be their fault, as if they should be more traditional.
 
Dude we’re vibing. I have been with her before where she’s mad about something, pulls out the camera and it’s all smiles for Instagram, then tells her kids to go find something to do and she’s back to being mad lol.

It’s all a fake façade for online likes
Thats all that matters to women now. It's a fake life they wanna live through social media and when a guy sees through it they block them out of thier life. I spent last 3 years chasing a pretty little single mom with 2 kids. Trip to Disney roof top dinners but when I try take her arm it's empty with no emotion or such. Considering she's a stable as a 3 legged chair I was doing everything til there was nothing left. So now she don't talk to me anymore because I seen who she is and just wants to live through her online likes. I've been a single dad since my daughter was 5 and raised her to be a great kid. She turns 20 in a few weeks and is a sophomore in college which tells me I must be a decent guy because she still comes home to dad's house. I'm 42 now and looks like I'll be single forever now and really don't even bother me much anymore.
 
He inserts himself into every single thread and makes sure everyone knows how smart and morally superior he thinks he is. (Laughable)

Well, not the political thread. He talked a big game and then turned tail and ran never to be seen a again when the election went the wrong way for him. Total keyboard cowboy.

Is this your first time meeting nightwish? If so then welcome to the party pal.
lol I think it is, I haven’t spent tons of time over on this board in a long while. How could I have guessed which way he voted lol

Easy decision to ignore
 
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No disrespect taken. I think being a father is much like lifting weights. If you’re not willing to go to war and get in the trenches to do those things, don’t do them cause the results won’t be of high quality

(Double bicep flex)
Yeah, I truly didn’t mean the way that other guy took it. I was saying it seems like you have it figured out. What is best for YOU. Good luck either way man.
 
When people like you are so nasty about it being done your way or that you're a "real man", it only validates their reason to avoid your situation. NOBODY would be so nasty if they were really happy. Sux for you.
You need mental help. Seriously, check with a professional if that’s what you took away from what I said to him.
 
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I believe a lot of European countries have raised the tax benefits for having kids and it has shown to be ineffective at turning the birth crisis around.

Not that it shouldn’t be raised in America, I’m just saying

I think a huge issue is modern women. Tatted up or the boss bitch type. Very promiscuous, usually liberal. A lot of it is against what the modern man wants in a wife/mother of his kids
My daughter has a couple Tattoos. She’s a wife, mother and Physician
 
Great point. My sister gets mad at me because I don’t want to visit and be more involved with her kids. Why would I? It’s loud and messy. I didn’t have a choice in her decision to have kids, she should respect mine for opting out of being the Worlds Best Uncle

If she gets mad, SHE'S the one being selfish.....she wants to show her kids off. It's a ton of work for her and if she can't show them off, it's not worth it. Don't let her shame you. Peope with kids get often mad when they can't show them off because it's hell the rest of the time. FACT!
Pretty sure I know why you two aren't having any kids. Get a hotel room and have it out already 😂

Kids are tough, probably the hardest thing I've done. The rewards far outweigh the difficulties though.
 
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