If you’re reading this, it means you are in a serious, committed, stable long-term relationship. Sure, you and your partner have seen your fair share of ups and downs, but, on the whole, you are happy together, love each other and plan to stay together for as long as possible. Then that fateful day comes. The day you discuss having children. It doesn’t even have to turn into a fully fledged argument for it to be unpleasant. It simply represents the first truly major obstacle along your path. You discover that your partner’s views on having children are wholly diverging from your own. Don’t bother explaining the beauty of pregnancy to them. Don’t waste your breath touting the joys of child-rearing. This will only help deepen the issue and drive you two further apart—and that’s precisely the aim you...








