Are children essential in marriage?

Can you live happily married without children? Does having children means you have settled in life? Once a couple gets married, generally the elderly people advice to have a child as soon as possible. Some people have children immediately and some wait for a few years. While some don’t want to have it at all. Whatever the decision is, it needs to be respected by others.

Each couple has their own couple goals and as far as they both are on the same page, one should not bother and pressurize them to have a child. If one wants children and the other doesn’t or if it is the other way around, then there will be a lot of issues popping ahead. The decision of having a child or not having a child has to be mutual.

People often call couples as selfish, who stick to not having children, as they have their own set of dreams & goals and having children is not one in their bucket list. Whether to be a parent or not is one of the most private and personal decisions a couple will ever make.

There are 3 types of couples:

Couples with children: A couple with children/child who is happy, content and satisfied by having one and enjoying the best of parenthood.

Trapped couples: A Couple who loves their children, however, regret having as they feel trapped and have sacrificed a lot of personal space, freedom, career, money and could have done much better in life if children would not be a part of their lives.

Couples without children: A couple who have taken a thoughtful decision of not reproducing children because the couple’s happiness is more important than anything else (not that they hate children).

The essentiality of being married without children is a couple’s choice and society needs to respect it.

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