Monday, June 30, 2014

I'm 40! Wife is 35. No kids yet?

We live in Utah. Everyone our age, and I mean everyone has children. Some even are graduating high school already. We've been told that we are selfish, that we aren't contributing to society, and that we are unresponsible adults because we have no children yet. We both work somewhat mediocre jobs. We live in a small apartment, never owned a house. We've been shunned from most of our friends due to our abstinence from having children. Maybe it's our geographical location, but some of my friends think we are serious losers because we'd rather go on 2 tropical scuba diving trips a year than pay absorbent amounts of money towards children and interest associated with a mortgage. But are we losers by the definition? Or is there other places to live around the country where there are others like us?

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