Wonder how old you are, just curious....
My wife thought exactly the same way - exactly. Hated kids, and uncomfortable with them. We were going to remain childless until we were in our dotage. They are inconvenient, expensive and nothing but trouble - why not just enjoy our peace together, and grow together, spiritually as people. Also it's not like we need offspring to support us in our old-age in this day and age, we can save for our own future...

I sort of accepted this. Just a little sad, wouldn't have minded a mini-me to play with, but never mind it'll be ok.

Until one day round about her 30th birthday and some magical mystery brain chemical timer expired and let loose baby chemicals into the blood.

Following day it was "awwwww" everytime a nappy ad came on the telly. This change in heart occurred literally in a matter of a few weeks... It's the single most dramatic psychological change I ever witnessed. Pregnant one month later.
(Super Jet Shoes, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 14:44, 1 reply)

I'm 23, and I've been adamant I don't want kids for as long as I remember.
All partners have been instructed that should the change of heart you describe in your missus happens to me, they are to firstly beat me in the face with a frying pan Vic and Bob style, and if that doesn't work, then I am to be taken out the back and shot through the head (which is the kindest thing if my brain has gone spazzy). I just can't imagine ever wanting one!
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 17:38, closed)

SJS may be right, alas
My partner has recently hit the big 3-0 and, even though she KNOWS that I don't want kids, even to the point that I made damn sure, surgically that I'd never again have some woman hand me something that's sticky, and kinda looks the same at both ends and tells me 'Happy father's day'(even though the first and only time that happened it worked out OK, the boy's missed out on most of the crap genes that run rife through my ancestry)...

Even with that, she still started hassling for a baby. At pretty mych exactly 30.

We'll discuss this in 7 years, Maladicta.
(pizzaforcat ate some cement and HARDENED the FUCK UP on, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 3:19, closed)