Then it’s January 2013. We are preparing for our 3 week backpacking trip to Myanmar. It will be Denny’s first time backpacking. We’re really looking forward to it and in my head I’ve decided that he’ll finally tell me whether or not he wants more children while we’re there. I can absolutely understand the reasons …
We now jump 2 years forward in time. By now we’re a couple, we live together and we’re happy. After 6 months I was already thinking ‘I want to have children with this man.’ That’s not what he’s thinking and it’s becoming a repetitive issue which sometimes ends in a fight and sometimes in tears, …
The ‘but…’ Have you ever felt like you were no longer in a situation, but kind of floating above it? Like you’re watching from a distance? I can see myself standing behind the bar, with this lovely man who is drinking mint tea for me, and whom I just very honestly told about my desire …
He wants to, but…. Three weeks later he’s sitting at the bar while I’m working. In the past weeks we’ve had a lot of contact via Hyves (a Dutch social networking site, from pre-Facebook days). I now know that he’s divorced and has 2 children. Max is 12 and Bo is 10. I’ve long since …
The father of my children? I knew I wanted children when I was still a child myself. It was an absolute given – completely obvious. I wanted children so badly that I worried I wouldn’t be able to have them. I often hear this, that women think that they’ll be unable to have children. Maybe …