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My boyfriend has 3 sisters in their mid to late 30's. All of them are in long term relationships with boyfriends they cohabitate with. All of these relationships are 5+ years in length. None of them are married or have kids. None of them are planning on marrying or having kids.
I have been dating my boyfriend for over 2 years. No plans of marriage or kids. Not cohabitating. I have one brother who is in a LTR with no plans on having kids or getting married.
Is this a rarity? 6 kids find 6 partners who all are on the same page about marriage and kids?
I think its a great demonstration that people can find and fall in love with like-minded individuals. Just wanted to know if you all have similar experiences within your own families?
Plus it makes for great conversations during holiday dinners (Thanksgiving Holiday got me thinking).
There are a number of people in my immediate and extended family who aren't into kids. I think it partly has to do with the parenting style kids experienced when they were growing up.
In my family, I have a few cousins and aunts/uncles, who are the average person on the street, who have not married. With the exception of one set of cousins from one uncle, here in America, where all of his kids have divorced once, none of my first cousins, and there are many, have divorced.
Outside of my family, I only know of one family where being single is an extreme. This Catholic family of Portuguese-Irish roots in Northern Calif. has 8 kids, and not one of them ever married.
Everyone in a relationship in my family is married and all of my friends, except 2 who are unmarried but cohabitating, are married. The 2 who are cohabitating are engaged but got cheated on and are reluctant to get married as well as reluctant to leave.
My dad and his twin brother married youngish and remarried 2 more times. My older half sister has 3 kids and is still with her boyfriend of 20 years that she cohabitates with and never plans to marry because they don't believe in marriage but they're equally as committed as married couples. My half brother was married, I'm not sure if he remarried but he has 3 kids. My other half sister is an admitted comitaphobe, has been engaged a few times but always called it off and now she has a baby boy about 1 years old.
On my mom's side, her and her sisters have all been married, and only one is still married. My uncles (her brothers) have never been married and they're well into they're 40's/50's now and they dont' have children either. They're not socially awkward either, they just never got around to marriage.
Mostly, on both sides of my family, marriage and kids come way later in life. We're career people first and foremost. I wanted to marry young though and start having kids around this time in my life. I have a feeling I'll only be a few years off lol.
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