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To: stands2reason
I've known several over many years without children--I don't ask them why unless they choose to tell me. Almost all appear content with their situation, whether it came by choice or by disappointment.

If it's any comfort, the couples without kids seem better able to maintain romance and friendly affection than those with It's that habit of putting the spouse as the most important person in one's life--without the competing demands of children, who often try to conquer by dividing.

80 posted on 07/22/2006 8:21:16 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Mamzelle
Almost all appear content with their situation, whether it came by choice or by disappointment.

You learn to deal with the hand you are dealt.

91 posted on 07/22/2006 8:36:27 PM PDT by stands2reason (ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
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