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When partners disagree about having children

I want to have children and my partner does not and we love each other but this feels like something we cannot compromise on.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The decision to have children represents one of the few relationship negotiations where compromise is impossible and someone's fundamental life vision must yield.

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