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YES! I had a very similar experience! I don't have a job, but I was studying part-time and I would like to work again, one day. So I guess I have the children and marriage. And some days, I really miss the career.

The other thing is that a parent, we are more likely to research everything, and I think we are more likely to do what we believe is best even if it is not 'the norm'. This often comes with some personal costs to us. In the middle of a really bad week, I once said that I would have been a happier parent if I'd had a frontal lobotomy when I got pregnant. That's probably a bit extreme, but really it is very hard to combine parenting 3 children 5 and under with any kind of sustained thought. I can completely understand choosing to have fewer or no children.