Good on you. I'm a fairly new parent and from the perspective of quality of life, things are just worse now. I still love my child intensely and get so much enj

Good on you. I'm a fairly new parent and from the perspective of quality of life, things are just worse now. I still love my child intensely and get so much enjoyment out of him, but overall I'd just be fooling myself if I said life was overall "better". At the same time I know for sure that if I didn't have the chance to have kids I'd probably become depressed due to my biological urge to have them. If you don't have that urge or it's smaller than for most people, consider yourself lucky. Based on all the parents I've interacted with, even if they don't admit this to themselves, they are probably in the same situation. They love their kids and interacting with them, but they are stressed out, have no time for themselves or their hobbies, and basically have two full time jobs for at least 18 years. In order to deal with that the only thing you can do is succumb to Stockholm's syndrome.