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JAY ROSENSHIELD'S BLOG

Baby Blues: You're Ready, He's Not!

Baby Blues: You're Ready, He's Not!

He wants kids—just not yet. How to handle the question of when to start a family.

I should have known. When you're 30 years old, like we are, and when you've been married three years, like we have, everything becomes about having a baby. No matter what we're talking about—our jobs, our friends, an upcoming vacation—reproduction is always just a free association away. It has even infiltrated our sex life: Yesterday, Emily confessed that her dirty thoughts about me now trigger a fantasy of me knocking her up.We both want a baby. If only we could agree on when. Jay Rosenshield writes about being a married man who's not ready to have a child.

The Ups and Downs of Marrying Young

The Ups and Downs of Marrying Young

He thought marrying your college sweetheart was for suckers. But then he did it.

While he and his wife are a perfect match, Jay Rosenshields knows there's no such thing as a perfect marriage. The best you can hope for is that your complement each other's strengths and supplement each other's deficiencies. Oh, and following up any major fight with a little timely sex is probably not a bad idea either. Find out why marrying young and to his college sweetheart can be the smartest thing he's ever done, despite preconceived ideas.