I want another child, but my husband doesn't

I want a second baby, but my husband says our daughter is more than enough for him. During my first marriage a routine gynecology exam revealed an issue that could make pregnancy and childbirth complicated, yet four months into my second marriage I became pregnant and that earlier diagnosis did not prevent pregnancy or cause complications.

My husband initially did not want children and took the news hard, but he embraced fatherhood more fully than I could have imagined. One night, while looking at our daughter's baby photos, I asked, "When can we have another?" He shut it down: "I don't want any more kids.

She's perfect for me." We've had that difficult conversation a hundred more times, and his answer has stayed the same. When I spoke to Amber Trueblood, a licensed marriage therapist, she said we had to be more honest about why we wanted what we wanted. She reminded me that in most couples there are real reasons underneath each position: "Perhaps one partner feels financial pressure or fears passing on a genetic anomaly...

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