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Originally Posted by BWillie
No not really but man I couldn’t imagine trading my early and mid 20s for raising a family.....especially if I was rich. It's really a time thing not about slaying chicks.
Ofc everyone is different and some people know exactly what they want and thats to be a husband and father as soon as possible. At the same time there are many that regret it. I have a few friends that were in LTRs in their early 20s and now they look back and are like what was I thinking
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My folks were done having kids by 25. I had my twins at 34.
My parents had their kids out of the house by their early 40s while I still have a pair of 6 year olds. My mom had a career change in her mid 40s when she decided she just wanted to do something else; my dad retired at 55.
I'll still have kids in college when I'm in my early 50s. They, with the benefit of financial stability and less career pressure, were done with all that and could take charge of the rest of their lives.
And yes, I got to have more freedom in my 20s when I was broke and still trying to find my footing professionally, but I got to put very little of that to use. Yeah - I drank more and did more silly shit than I would have with kids but whatever.
There are obvious benefits both ways.
If your metric for success is getting drunk and banging chicks - have kids later - sure, having kids early seems real dumb. But that's because you're looking at things over an incredibly limited timeline.
Life ain't that short, fella. Maybe have your eyes a little further down the road.