Am I alone?

[prabha_friend]

Is anyone Here? Been married more than 5 years still without a Kid...

P.S:
I know it's very very personal but no one with I can share these kind of things in the physical world...

 

[NauticalGent]

There are certain actions one must take to have children...

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

It may be that your equipment, or your wife's equipment is not working properly.

I had the opposite problem, I was too fertile and ended up with seven children!

On the other hand my sister had to have artificial aid to produce a baby...

It's a strange world!

 

[NauticalGent]

I was too fertile and ended up with seven children!

Holy faulty contraceptives', Bat Man...!

 

[prabha_friend]

It may be that your equipment, or your wife's equipment is not working properly.

I had the opposite problem, I was too fertile and ended up with seven children!

On the other hand my sister had to have artificial aid to produce a baby...

It's a strange world!

I am taking Aripiprazole

 

[NauticalGent]

And you feel like this may be what is hampering your ability to have children?

 

[The_Doc_Man]

My wife and I are childless, but fortunately she had kids with her first husband, so I have grandkids even if only by marriage. And if any kids came along at this stage, I would have to change my religious (non-)beliefs, 'cause that would truly qualify as a miracle.

 

[prabha_friend]

And you feel like this may be what is hampering your ability to have children?

I think that's the bitter fact

 

[NauticalGent]

I think that's the bitter fact

Well then you must ask yourself which is more important; the effects of the medicine or a family with children. I read the side effects of this drug and although there are many negative ones, I did not see sterility as one of them?

 

[NauticalGent]

At the risk of sounding harsh and insensitive, I am NOT the right person to discuss this with. I have a seething hatred for the pharmaceutical industry.

 

[Galaxiom]

Have you considered visiting a fertility clinic?
They will be able to do tests to determine the problem.
Maybe the Aripiprazole is causing low sperm count but they might be able to work with less in IV fertilisation?

 

[prabha_friend]

Yeah. We are planning for a visit this Month... Thanks Galaxy.

 

[MsAccessNL]

According to the beliefs of P, you must be the luckiest man in the world with 7 children. So you are living in total happiness, never feeling alone or depressed, just enyoying all this happiness and fulfillment, your 7 children (and there family) are valuntarely bringing you every day?

 

[baderms]

Is anyone Here? Been married more than 5 years still without a Kid...

P.S:
I know it's very very personal but no one with I can share these kind of things in the physical world...

With everything that's going on in the world today, it might be a blessing. Both mine are adults, not sure if I'd want any now days.

 

[Isaac]

I am taking Aripiprazole

This is very interesting to me.
I believe you once mentioned something about paranoia. I trust this med is helping with this, as it absolutely usually does.

I'm not sure about fertility vs. this med.

Be aware that children cause a LOT of work and some suffering, in addition to joy and satisfaction. If you cannot have your own natural kids, perhaps you can consider adopting. Many children are in need of good families and there is no actual good reason that we could not love an adopted child just like our natural one.

 

[NauticalGent]

children cause a LOT of work and some suffering, in addition to joy and satisfaction.

And it isn't always a good ratio!

 

[Isaac]

And it isn't always a good ratio!

Yeah LOL.

Marriage, for me, is a bit different. In my humble opinion, just about every normal man and woman was designed for marriage.
It's a mixture of all the things you NEED from an intimate, monogamous, lifetime opposite-gender relationship, with the other half being your primary opportunity to become a person whose life, soul, attention & person is totally given to someone else, in the ultimate selfless devotion that gives us purpose and reminds us we are made in the image of God - to know and serve Him.
Families are SO parallel to many Godly attributes, that's why they work and their brokenness destroys the world in a million ways.

I think almost everyone is best realized by joining the married world, doing so carefully at first, but then with reckless selfless abandon.

But children is a bit different. They come naturally of course, but some people do seem a bit well suited to the childless life. I have an uncle and aunt who are childless by choice, and I can't really judge them for it - they're givers in their own way, and after all, the world does have a lot of kids already!

 

[Cotswold]

I've been married for 56 years now and our children haven't looked like kids for a long, long time.

 

[Galaxiom]

Marriage, for me, is a bit different. In my humble opinion, just about every normal man and woman was designed for marriage.

That is an inevitable conclusion for someone who enjoys marriage and defines "normal" as people who are the same as them.

 

[prabha_friend]

Sometimes the Society... You know the rest I Believe...