Open to Life? Or Overtaken by the Contraceptive Mentality?
Many people are afraid that they would have to sacrifice something in their current lifestyle in order to have more children. To be honest, there often is a change in one’s lifestyle – for the better. Actually, I would call it a change in one’s priorities.
Suddenly, when your perception changes, the extra stuff that was once seemed necessary becomes a nuisance – including the nights out, the extra car payments, the weekends filled with building on or remodeling the house, and so on. All these things are absolutely not wrong by themselves, but they do take on more meaning when done with, or for, your family, not in replacement of the family.
Are you replacing the children you could have had for extra vacations and an RV at retirement?