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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swirlie · 31-35, F

I made a conscious decision when I was about 20 years old that I would forgo parenting in this lifetime of mine, only because I realized that I would only be repeating a continuously repeating cycle which predominated my family's history, where nobody really got to do what they really wanted to do in their lifetime because their kids were always their first priority which they should be anyway once you have the first one.

This time around however, it's all about me and I've never looked back!