# I've Been Happily Married, No Children.

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 15, 2013, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-happily-married-no-children/650346 "2013-02-15T00:15:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-happily-married-no-children/650346/12 "2013-02-15T01:56:07Z")

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> [@pchaos](#):
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> I’ve been married over 25 years and during this time I’ve only told my wife once that I wish we had a child or children. I’ve spoken to married people that had children during this span of time.
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> And they’ve often told me that having children changes everything. I’ve always been afraid to ask them what they meant by this. I suppose, I’m afraid that I’ve missed something. But I’m still not sure what they meant. For parents out there, please enlighten me. Do you feel that way about your family?

If you don’t know, you don’t know - and didn’t you post once that you were a grandfather - how in the hell could you be a grandfather if you didn’t have atleast one kid?

> [@God must be a sadist](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-must-be-a-sadist/645080/180):
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> That’s what I would say and I would say it with conviction. And the parents who are religious would feel better, and I would feel better because my grandson had died.

So, if you have never had kids - then you have no idea what you were saying about how parents would feel in that other thread to the death of their children, and you really should not make assumptions like you do. If that post was a ‘metaphor’ and this post is ‘genuine’ - then as I started to say -

Its one of those feelings you can;'t know until you know it.

Go get a puppy - its alot like that.

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