I was going to post that I am married to my wife because we share the same high-level goals in life and want to walk that path together, supporting each other a

I was going to post that I am married to my wife because we share the same high-level goals in life and want to walk that path together, supporting each other along the way. That is certainly true. > even if the hunger for companionship or childraising at any cost means that such insistently single people might remain a minority. ... then I got to this part. The fact is, raising a family is very much core to our relationship; it's the "high-level goals in life" that I referred to above. Intuitively, I am very confident that my marriage would make sense and be equally fulfilling if we could not have children or didn't desire them. Objectively, I can't actually make that assertion because my own perspective is so influenced by the fact that family is so central to our lives that I'm not confident I could anticipate what it would be like without that shared desire. What I can say is that my marriage is something that I rely upon every day, and that the effort that I and my wife expend making and keeping it healthy is very much worth it.