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My Husband Doesn't Want To Have Children

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GoldenOstrich · 23/03/2024 19:59

I'm 33 and I'm 5 years married. My husband doesn't want to have children and I do. He told me he did want to have children, and he was telling me that for years and he seems to have changed his mind now. I got my own house 2 years before I got married. It's a 1 bedroom flat, and my husband moved in with ma when we got married. Before we got married, we decided that we would save up and buy a new house. Two years after I got married, my mum said she would buy new furniture for my flat, and a few weeks after that, my mother in law sent my husband pictures of a house that was for sale and she asked us if we wanted a viewing of it, and I said to my husband "My mum said she is going to get new furniture for my flat so I'd say not right now" and then, he said that to his mum. It was a 2 bedroom terrace she was talking about, and he said that if we had that house, the spare room would be for our children. But we decided to leave getting a new house for later. He hasn't asked me again if I want to move and his mum hasn't offered us any other new houses since then, and neither has my mum. If anyone asks us if we're moving house or if we're staying put, my husband says we're staying put. I desperately want a baby. The last time my husband and I had sex was before Christmas (I've been on the contraceptive pill since a month before I got married) My ex boyfriend didn't want to have children, that was why I broke up with him. All my cousins who are around my age are mothers/fathers. I have a younger brother who is 32 and a younger sister who is nearly 31. I have a feeling my brother will announce he is going to be a dad soon because our cousin he grew up with has recently became a dad. I would be upset if my brother and/or sister had children and I didn't and I would also be upset if any of them had children before me, even if I do have children. Also, father in law said he would take me and my husband and his family on a holiday to Disney world in a few years, originally, it was going to be in 2021, then 2022, then 2023, and now he's saying he'll do it in a few years, so he keeps moving the date. If I broke up with my husband, I might never find someone else, or it might be too late for me to have children before I find someone else. What can I do?

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bigteddycat · 23/03/2024 23:03

Op, You seem
Very juvenile in all your posts. I can't really understand why a holiday comes into the equation and why you wouldn't want to meet your siblings children.

Dear god. I agree with @bigteddycat Please don't have any children. This suggests a total lack of maturity and a strangely spiteful streak. You are definitely not ready to be a mother.

martinisforeveryone · 24/03/2024 09:38

AllTheChaos · 24/03/2024 04:24

Yep. I’m thinking either AI, or bored teenager, or bored teenager using AI!

Yes. If this is a real poster their concerns read like a massive wind up.

On the off chance someone genuinely has these thoughts and opinions, they're most definitely not in the right head space to become a parent.

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newnameish · 24/03/2024 10:22

Solution - sit your husband down and tell him you want to start trying for a baby. If he says yes then wonderful news for you. If no, break up with him and find someone else to start a family with.

Clear communication is the only way forward in your situation.

rainbowstardrops · 24/03/2024 10:38

Your mum offers to furnish your home. Your MIL offers to arrange a house viewing. Your FIL is on about Disney.

Was it a typo in your post? Did you mean to write 13 instead of 33?!

Macaroni46 · 24/03/2024 19:15

rainbowstardrops · 24/03/2024 10:38

Your mum offers to furnish your home. Your MIL offers to arrange a house viewing. Your FIL is on about Disney.

Was it a typo in your post? Did you mean to write 13 instead of 33?!

The bit I find most baffling is why OP stayed in a one bed flat when a house was on offer and she wants a baby?! Mixed messages there!

Sleeplesnights · 24/03/2024 19:54

Very unfair of him to keep moving the goalposts. I'd have to end things I'm afraid.

BirthdayRainbow · 24/03/2024 19:58

Bit immature to care that your sibling might have kids before you.

Your husband has tricked you. He said he wanted kids so you'd marry him. Now he suddenly doesn't.

I think the furniture decision was silly.

My friend was told after marriage her husband didn't want kids. She stayed with him. He's regretting it now and it's too late. She'll never really forgive him but she chose to stay.

Don't be her. Take control of your life. Bottom line is, is he worth not having kids?

Maybe be less enmeshed with the parents too. Make your own decisions.

KarstRegion · 24/03/2024 20:28

The input that mothers and MILs seem to have on whether to move house or not is the single weirdest bit of this for me, even weirder than the fact that the OP appears to think that an offer of a trip to Disney means she has to leave her putative child home alone with a fridge of bottles. OP, you get that you can move house whenever you like and can afford it, right? And that Disney actually encourages children?

Spudthespanner · 24/03/2024 21:42

Caring about a trip to Disneyland as a 33 year old woman, to the extent that it informs when you want to try to conceive is... seriously weird.

Copperoliverbear · 24/03/2024 22:36

I don't blame him, the way the world is now and the financial strain, I would not have them either. X

bringslight · 05/10/2024 20:27

Thank you for the post. God bless. This is a hard one for you because what happens, let's say you get pregnant ( it happened to my best friend who used condoms at the time with her boyfriend and she never wanted kids), but anyway he wanted kids, she did not want and she did not do abortion due to religious reasons and they ended up getting married only for her to leave for another country, the father and the daughter in order to be away from the family. I could not understand my friend for what she did, nor her husband....we though we knew her

Then she would just come occasionally for one or two holidays per year and see her daughter. Not nice, is it

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