My partner (who I've been with for five years, since I was sixteen, and we have only ever been with each-other) has just decided that he doesn't want children, ever. He doesn't see how they would bring a higher meaning in life that he can't create himself, and doesn't want them to negatively affect his life so that he might one day resent/regret them. His father died when he was seven, but apart from that there are no health problems that he could pass down, and he has had a very happy childhood/life. There is so much love and trust and friendship in our relationship, we do almost everything together and have never fought over anything. Our families love each-other and we love each-others families, and my younger brother sees him as a best friend. We just moved to London from Australia about three months ago so that he could study at Uni, and have made a home together. It hasn't come as a complete shock, he was always unsure of having his own children, but we had discussed adoption of a child (not a baby) and he was all for it, but I have always wanted a child and have never wavered from wanting one. I don't even want a child anytime soon, I want to wait until I'm about 30. I trust him 100% with everything, I feel comfortable with him and I saw us growing old together, and I believed in that future so much, but in that future there were children and family Christmas' and whatnot. It feels like my whole world has completely flipped and I don't know which way is up. Do I leave, possibly never to find the perfect person, or have kids and they turn into terrible people, or do I stay and regret not having children, grow to resent him, and leave in another five years when we're even deeper in? He also told me that if I stayed he would feel terrible that he had taken that opportunity away from me. Every path feels unbearably wrong and I honestly don't know what to do.