“People Keep Bugging Us To Have Kids”

My husband and I have been together since we were 15, and married since 20. Now, as 23 year-olds, we are finding ourselves under immense pressure from our parents, friends and co-workers (?!) to have children. Everyone seems to think that once you are married the next step is children. While we definitely want to have them, we still feel that we are very young and have many things we wish to experience together before we make such a life-changing decision. When I explain that to nosy people, including my mother-in-law, I am treated as though I am an selfish child who ought not to have married if she wasn’t ready for babies….

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