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SeeYouNever's picture

My husband and I had a friend who recently went through a divorce. The main reason of their divorce was because his wife wanted kids and he didn't. He had always made it pretty clear and this is one of those classic examples of you need to talk about this stuff before you get married and you need to go into a marriage not expecting somebody to change their mind about important issues like this.

His wife met somebody and remarried within a couple months and started having kids. Our friend enjoyed his solitude and worked on his hobbies and enjoying living alone with his cat and his disposable income. Then he met his next wife. 

We haven't seen our friend since he met her, they've been together just under two years and just got married this past weekend. He didn't tell anybody. 

His new wife was a single mom with two kids under 10 and is very much into CrossFit going to the gym and fitness. She constantly puts pictures of herself on his social media and TBH she seems pretty obnoxious and full of herself. Our friend is wealthy, owns his own house, and has no biokids. By BM standards she caught herself a whale.

I have no idea why our friend who is very calm and introverted and didn't want kids would end up with a obnoxious single mom with two kids under ten. Since we haven't heard from him since he started dating her I'm guessing she's pretty domineering about his life and I wonder now if we should reach out and see if he's okay. 

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justmakingthebest's picture

Maybe he changed his mind?

My exH never wanted kids. We had 2 (they weren't accidents, I had to see an infertility specialist and all) and he regretted it... vocally and often. We divorced. He got his GF and the time pregnant. They got married 5-6 years ago now and just had another. He seems really happy now. 

Maybe it was losing his "first family" that made him appreciate the one he has built now? Or maybe it was he and I weren't right as parents together under one roof? I don't really know but the man I was married to is nothing like the one he is now. He is a much better husband and father. Maybe your friend found the right person for him and he likes his new family life? 

SeeYouNever's picture

Perhaps, I know someone that did something similar. However in all of these examples it's a guy having his own biokid that makes him suddenly ok with kids. I really can't wrap my head around a confirmed child free person being suddenly happy with having two fulltime stepkids.

However, I'm pretty sure his new wife doesn't have her kids all that often, maybe that makes it more tolerable? I know I wouldn't have ended up with my husband if he had 50/50 or more.

justmakingthebest's picture

True... 

Cover1W's picture

I never wanted kids, ever.  However, DH had them, but they were.not.mine. And they were ages I could deal with, 7 & 9. I had limits when I was dating that kids were ok, no more than 2, no younger than 5 and no teenagers and no adult kids living with parents.

I was not a kid want thing for me at all, but a relationship thing.