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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
35 almost 36 with 0 kids and married for 12 years.   I sat my wife down and explained to her when I asked her to marry me that I wasn’t interested in having children, I also explained to her why she would like not having children as well.

“Do you enjoy sleeping in on the weekend?”

“Do you enjoy going to the store and taking your time without any harassment and spending what money you want when you want?”

“You can get a new car whenever you want or if you wanted a new cell phone or whatever”

“We will be more financially sound”

“You don’t have to ruin your body for an ungrateful child”

“Generally you’ll just be happier, look at your friends with children.”

Instead we have 2 dogs, it’s not a big deal at all and I’m pretty sure the “sleep in all you want on your days off” is what won the deal.

Edit since everyone wants to downvote: I didn’t sit this woman down and make her understand, she didn’t want to have children before we sat down and had this conversation together, I just wanted to re-affirm that she was sure that she didn’t want them
Before I was legally bound to her and that she knew the pros and cons.
gpt
Same age. My friends are all currently popping them out. Couple have newishborns (I dunno what age counts as what baby stage) They talk about doing x y z in the future and all I think is: well, I'm gonna do that now because I don't have to wait...laters! 

My last bf tried telling me I might change my mind. At 35!