The one where he doesn’t want kids ..

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Just watching friends on Netflix , the one where Monica and Richard are madly in love , but he doesn’t want kids and she desperately does. The only option must be to end it .. I can imagine that to be quite devastating :(

Has anyone been in this position ? Have you been in a long term relationship and this happen to you? Or has your partner told you initially they want kids and then changed their mind ?

Not familiar with the episode but yes it happened to me. With someone for more than 5 years. Seemed like a great guy and seemed pretty relaxed about kids but then I got diagnosed with endometriosis and realised my fertility was affected and it was probably only going to get worse we then had to start talking about things more seriously. We decided to end it a few months after...

Yes it happened in my last relationship. My partner changed his mind. It was heart breaking, but the only option was to end it.

Still hurts now.

I left my marriage after a year because he didn't want kids. He was 35 and I was 30 so it's not like we were too young or anything. I've been with my now DP for 10 years and we have a 6 and an 8 year old.

Sorry, forgot to say that before we got married he said he wanted children. It was only after that he said he'd changed his mind!

It's happened to me the other way around. I don't want children and numerous times I've been told by men they don't want children and then after a few months/when we move in/when we get engaged/when we get married they've asked when we are going to have children and admit they've lied and want children and assumed I would change my mind/love them so much that I'd want kids with them/all women want kids so I must've been lying/they could convince me/they could trick me.

There's no compromise in that situation. People have not had kids because their partner didn't want any and end up bitter/resentful/devastated and people have had kids they didn't want because their partner wanted them and it's ruined their lives and they end up bitter and resentful.

That show was in the 90s wasnt it??

so most people who'd remember it now would be over their peak fertility.

*That show was in the 90s wasnt it??

so most people who'd remember it now would be over their peak fertility.*

It’s been on TV constantly since the 1990s...

First time poster that smells of someone wanting to write something for Take A Break magazine or some such.

Nachos Then I am grateful for one more thing that drives my lack of appetite for TV.

I remember at the time someone told me "Oh you must watch Friends, it's hilarious!" So my partner of the time and I sat down one Saturday (Friday?) night to watch it. And we sat there and waited to laugh. After 15 minutes of laugh track and us not cracking even a faint smile, we gave up, rolled a joint and watched HIGNFY instead.

I am on that sort of situation, married for 5 years, when we married we were both quite young and said we were not bothered about having children, now that my biological clock is ticking i have changed my mind but my DH is still really strongly saying he doesn't want kids, not sure what will happen between us :(