Do you really like and love kids? Life is empty withaut kids?

Romania
June 15, 2009 4:55am CST
I have a very good friend, who is married with a man who don t want to have babyes, even she want a baby. Ho really don t like kids, he want to be realx, have a nice life, travelling, he like to feel free, and he say that life for him is quaite, and don t want noise in his home. My friend, is desperate, but shes husband, really don t want a kid. She ask my advice, because i have my kids, and she love a lot my kids. What advice i must give she....so, she love she husband a lot, but a kid too...
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@sanwhy (87)
• Jamaica
15 Jun 09
my advice to your friend is that, if your friend's husband has neices or nephew's they should let them stay over for the weekend and then he would probably see that having children brings about joy and much more happieness. probably your friend husband has issues when he was growing up therefore dealing with othe kids may just remind him of what he had been thourgh. your friends husband needs to understand that without kids there's no tomarrow when the older generations have passed, what happens next? how does he plan to spend the later part of his life having no one to graduate from college. memories like those however time consuming kids may be will be worth it after all.
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• United States
15 Jun 09
This could backfire if the nieces/nephews are not well behaved. Rather than an entire weekend, I would encourage visitng with other children for shorter periods of time. Have them over for dinner or take them to the zoo for a few hours. It just wouldn't be very helpful if the kids came over for the weekend and the husband couldn't get a moment of silence. It would just prove his point.
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• Romania
16 Jun 09
you are right, if we talk about somebody who like(not love) the kids...but he really don t like kids. i wonder sometimes that if he was really a kid, or if he was born adult already
• United States
15 Jun 09
I LOVE being a mother and find great joy in my children. I knew I wanted children early in my life and made sure that the guys I developed relationships with also wanted to kids. Those who did not want kids, the relationship did not go far. Before I married my husband, we discussed several things about our future at great length, including how many kids we wanted, when we wanted to have them, and whether I would stay home or work after they were born. It appears your friend did not have this same conversation and now she is faced with a dilemma. She needs to realize a few things: 1) She has a limited amount of time to have children and so she needs to make her decision in the near future. 2) She needs to discuss just how important it is to her to have children with her husband. 3) Together, they must decide if the marriage or the desire for/against children is more important to them. She should absolutley NOT try to accidentally-on-purpose get pregnant, especially if she wants to stay married and maintain a good relationship with her husband. Trapping a man into becomming a father is not good for anyone involved. I hope your friend is able to work this out. Ideally (for her), he will decide he values their marriage more than his desire to not have children and he will give her the child(ren) she so badly wants, but if he doesn't, she needs to make a decision herself. I have met many people in my life who did not have children, but later wished they had. I have met very few who did have children who later wished they had not.
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• Romania
16 Jun 09
I am sure that she will be a great mother in the future...if shes husband is a stuburn person and don t want kids he must to find a woman who really don t like the kids too.
• Philippines
16 Jun 09
Kids makes the house more lighter and happier. I like kids as their presence as my niece or nephews but kids with me I mean I am the mother and will take care of them, that is really far for my idea. I am not ready for that kind of responsibility, lets see when time comes.
@syankee525 (6261)
• United States
15 Jun 09
having kids is great, i would be who i am today if it wasnt for my kids. and having grandkids, neices, and nephews in my life just awsome. seeing them smile and hearing them laugh brighten up my days always.
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• Romania
16 Jun 09
yes, with kids in your home life is not so hard sometimes, and we have reasons to go on
@med889 (5941)
15 Jun 09
Kids fill the live with happiness and they bring laughter in your house. Kids are naughty sometimes but they should be living their childood as once we have lived. Kids are the joys to one's life and those who have no kid can tell you better than I have. To be able to have kids is something wonderful in life as you are able to live the moments of parenthood so I value having kids a lot in my life.
• Romania
16 Jun 09
At least, kids are our next generation, if we are here now, in this world, we are because out parents love the kids...i am right?
@bobijuve (43)
• Macedonia
15 Jun 09
First i've gotta say, nice english :) lol About the kids, i cant imagine my life if i dont have kids. But there are people who dont wanna have kids and thats it. I would say that thats a problem they have to resolve on their own. You should be supportive, but they have to decide what they are going to do. You musnt put your nose in that thing to much.
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• Romania
16 Jun 09
Is not my mother tongue, but i try to make what i can...so, you never help your friend when are almost to divorce with a advice? i am sure that my friend want my advice, and she like my nose, i have a pretty nose
@cahyorini (315)
• Indonesia
16 Jun 09
It's very sad to hear this, it's to bad that your husband friend doesn't want the baby, i love my daughter very much, she's cute and very charming. I think your friend have to bring her husband to baby event until he's eyes are open. Tell him that "is he want to live only for one generation ?" don't his want to have his successor in live or having wonderful time with wife and child. Even my husband involve with taking care of our baby, he(my husband) even wake up in the midnight to calm the baby. Ohh i can't wait to have more baby again.
@kprofgames (3091)
• United States
16 Jun 09
I have to say that children are a great asset to my, but I also know people that don't want to have children. There isn't anything wrong with that either. I have to wonder though, didn't she know this before she married him? I mean people to meet, fall in love and want to plan a future together have to discuss these kinds of things. If she knew this before she married him, why is so so desparate to have a child with a man she knows doesn't want any? I'm sorry, but I"m at a loss here.
@Citychic (4067)
• United States
15 Jun 09
Do you really love kids? Hello friend, kids are very nice but after a while a person can become tired of them and it's not like you can really try to center your life around them because when they are little they need us but once they get older, they feel as if they don't need anyone. They will go on their way and leave you high and dry. As for your friend, tell her to move near you so that she can still enjoy your children then when she is tired she can go back to her quiet home and her quiet husband and enjoy life even more. I can understand her husbands'feelings if he don't want children. It sounds as if it's something the two of them should have discussed before getting married. Now it seems like they might need to marital counselling because they both want something different. I know that my answer might not be what you were expecting to hear but I'm just being for real with you. Kids are really nice at times but after a while everyone needs a break away. Best of luck to you and your friend and kids.Happy mylot!
@icesmile (7160)
• Romania
15 Jun 09
Hi, if you ask me about kids, i will have different answers..when they argue, or are not to nice...i will say that to have kids is very hard...but when they are nice, and polite..i love they so much...what is important is that life withaut kids is empty, and i think that your friend have a real problem. A couple must to talk about this subject before married, will be very hard after to take a decision, if one say yeas and other not.
@Zhizho (1350)
• Indonesia
16 Jun 09
Hi Marianna.I concerned about your friend problem.I think,she's husband have not close yet with children.Maybe,your friend have to be patience but don't give up to propulsive her husband that having baby make day more happy.Having own baby will give other feel as parent.try to walking at kid'd school to see how happy they are.Read some book which tell story about "How amazing be pragnance or be parent".I hope it will help your friend.invite him to discuss about it.
• China
15 Jun 09
yongs are more likely to live without kids but when they become older they will love kids. i donnt like kids becuase i think that they're noicy!
• China
16 Jun 09
i love kids!as a matter of fact i am going to have a kids recently, in my opinion,without a kids is not a real life. kids can make your life nice more. i think you should try to suggest your friend to have a kids.tell him the advantage ,it can make you have a better life if you have a kids.
• United States
15 Jun 09
Some people aren't meant to have children. Frankly, some people do not need to have children. Every one has their own personality, their own goals and interests and you have to accept that. I, personally, wouldn't trade having my child for anything. He is my life and that's what I want. Other people don't feel that way.
• India
15 Jun 09
really see every one can see a thing in there own vision and ideas. so someone like baby and someone hate because of there bad nature. in my sense babies are really nice and good because u see yourself in them when u were small. and really you fell relax and forget all tension when a small baby sitting near you smiles and really love you so according to me you should love baby.
@cobra1368 (702)
• United States
15 Jun 09
She may love him, but honestly, she should not have married someone who did not want kids if she did not feel the same way. Those are one of those things you talk about before marrying someone. My husband and I definitely talked about that! I knew I wanted kids and I was looking for a man who wanted children of his own. It is important to me, therefore, I had to have that quality in a man or I knew I would not be happy in my marriage. We don't have kids yet, but we're currently trying. We are definitely ready, and yes, I do think my life would be much less complete without kids in it. I used to not feel this way, but once that biological clock turned on, now I can't WAIT to have kids!
@Beenice (237)
• Canada
15 Jun 09
They should have talked about this before to get really involved, because I know it can cause a lot of division in a life of couple if they are not on the same page. If she is married it will lead to a divorce.She didn't meet the right guy,he wants his freedom he is not over his boyhood or something. They have to sit down the two of them and make things clear between the two of them,if there ideas and dreams are not crossing each other path well then he fraud her.
• Philippines
15 Jun 09
I really like and love kids! I can't imagine what my life would be without them, without my son for that matter. What I can suggest you to do is to tell your friend to talk to his husband. let him know about what she feels in having a baby. Communication is the thing to solve it. Also, I personally believe that your friend's husband was able to say those things about not having kids because maybe he has a lot of things that he wants to accomplish yet. But when the time comes that the guy is old enough, I think he will still want to have a child.