Another Childless-by-choice person here! I've just never wanted kids, despite being an in-demand babysitter throughout HS and involved with them through church in college and beyond. Or maybe that's WHY ...

I just don't want any of my own and have been blessed with a DH2B who feels the same. We actually talked about it months before dating - when he mentioned that he was hoping to stay kidless, I knew he was a keeper.

Well, for that and many other reasons. I live on campus at my grad school right next to the family housing and
really don't know how some of my fellow students do it. I'm barely making it with just myself to feed and house, some of them seem determined to fill out their family to the max before they graduate. Because student loans, second shifts, exams, papers, and two-bedroom apartments are just better with three crying kids?

. They may be fantastic parents, but it just seems cruel to do that to a small kid. "Here's your patch of grass to play in, someday your daddy/mommy will actually be home sometime and not studying so you can meet them."
We're a few months out from the wedding and have already gotten the "when're you gonna have kids" question from at least two sources. Most I can just push off with the standard "let's get through wedding/school/whatever" line and change the subject. The hard one was my friend who had an "oops" kid and is now the cutest, best mother. She seems to feel that since she so loves being a mom, despite not wanting to beforehand, I will feel the same way and am missing SO much by refusing. Maybe. I'll gladly take that risk and enjoy your little guy and enjoy even more handing him back to you!