The great dilemma....I don't want to have children?

In this economy. I'm afraid I won't be able to give them the best when they deserve it. My boyfriend and I have had a severe disagreement on this. As much as I really love him, I think this will end things between us. I'm extremely depressed. I don't want to leave him. Yet it's been an extremely rocky week. Probably the worst one. I feel horrible. I handled it very poorly as well.

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The great dilemma....I don't want to have children?

If it's about finances, then I agree with your decision. No reason to bring kids up an increasingly material world, without the means to go all the way. all they way through college.

I don't mean make spoil them rotten, but be able to give them what the average kids have today.

It's a shared responsibility, and it may sound harsh, but "we will figure out as we go", is not a substitute fro reality.