Let’s be honest: parents often put a lot of pressure on kids. Children are born into a world of expectations. There are all of these things their parents want them to be or not be. People say that having kids is to “give life” but I often see it being about telling them what life to live. I’m not doing that to anybody.
If a girlfriend talks about wanting to meet someone soon because her biological clock is ticking, we all groan, and say something about the patriarchy or feminism. We’ve somehow turned biological clock talk into a political discussion. In reality, women do only have until a certain age to have good chances of a healthy and easy pregnancy. But we look down on those who talk about that.
Out of necessity, you make some new couples friends who also have the financial wiggle room to do things with you. You don’t mean to leave your friends with kids behind but, they just always say no to your invitations.
There's a reason having children is becoming more of a preference than an absolute for many single and married men and women