I'm not the OP, but what's fascinating to me about your comment is that despite the fact I absolutely adore them, my intuition has been saying "DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN" to me for my entire life, and I'm realizing that this has played a major role in keeping my love life dysfunctional, since there's always going to be the risk of making a child when sex happens, and given societal norms here there's no way I could have had a love life and avoided sex; and given my age is past the point where a lot of people have kids, and the fact I clearly adore them, it quite likely would have become a major relationship issue with anyone who I had a serious relationship with anyway.

Well, I've realized that this inner voice died down very abruptly, right as the vaccine mandates here started to go away. Had I had children, I would have done anything to keep them safe, including taking one of the mRNA things, and it's rather disturbing to me that basically the instant I got through that storm, suddenly my intuition is saying it's safe for me to have kids....