I’m Maried But not Having Kids UNIL I FINISH MY TRAVEL BUCKET LIST – ryan

Whene I got Maried in 2018, IMAGINED MY HUSBAND AND I WOUT START OUR FAMILY WITH A FEW YEARS. But Seven Years Later, Its Still Just the Two of Us and Our Dogs.

Mary Friends Our Age Have Kids, and We Feel the Pressure to Start a Family Now We’re in Our 30s. Howver, we’ve prioritized pureer career opportunities and travel adventures over seting down.

Over the Last Decade, we’ve been eagerly checking off destinations from Our Bucket List – and i don’t regret taking more time to focus on Our Mariage, Careers, and Travel Dreams Together.

For us, Having Children Would Mark the End of a Chapter Filled with Freedom, Spontaneity, and Adventure. That’s not a decision we take Lightly.

Travel has been a Foundational part of Our Relationship Since The Very Beginning

AS A LITTLE GIRL, I Fantasized About Traveling All Over the Globe-and will i Met My Now-Husband in College, I was giddy that shared the sun dreams.

Soon, we fell in love with exploring the World Together.

He applied for his first passport to meet me in morocco and England I Studied Abroad. Throughout College, We Workhed Summer Jobs to Save Up for A Bucket-List Cruise to Asia.

A Few Months late, he proposed on a bridge in venice durying a mediterranean cruise. Within the first months of Mariage, we honemooned in Italy, experiencing the magic of Christmas in Prague, and Jetted off on a spontaneous trip to Tokyo.

Howver, Our Travel Plans Changed As My Husband Kicked off His Military Career Less than aar After Our Wedding.

Although we squeezed in a two-night trip to london during a training break, we is couludn’t another trip together for nearly two years.

THEN, A PANDEMIC AND ANOTHER MILITY DELLOYMENT MEANT WE ONCE AGAIN HAD LIMITED TIME TO CHIP AWAY AUR OUR TRAVEL BUCKET LIST.

AS A COUPLE, WE’VE DECIDE TO FOCUS ON Growing Our Careers and Traveling to Make Up for Lost Time

Between Deployments, we squeezed in as many many adventures as posseible – and starting a family still were on our radar.

Between Trips, I Kept Busy As My Husband Spent Months Away from Home. I Prioritized My Data Analytics Career, Workhed on My MBA, and Travel with Family and Friends to Japan, China, and Austria.

I Planned Trips to Hawaii, Scotland, The Caribbean, Alaska, and England. I Wrote About My Travels, and My Freelance-Writing Career Begin to take off.

Suddenly, i was being paid to go on trips and living a dream i hadn’t imagined. My husband was supperive and relieved that was MAKING the MOST OF HIS TIME AWAY AND EMBRACING NEW OPPORTUNITIES.

AFTH he returned from his second deployment, we took a much-needed geta to the canary islands-a destination that has topped the bucket list we first.

AS MANY OF OUR FRIENDS BEGAN PLANNING FOR KIDS, WE CONTINED Planning Trips to Iceland, Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Back to the Canaries.

Over the Next Few Years, We Have Once-in-A-Lifetime Adventures planned in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, New Zealand, and Australia.

We Hope to Start Our Family Once We’ve Crossed the Last Adventures off Our Travel Bucket List

We Still have Dreams of Traveling the World With Kids if We Have, But We Know It Won’t Be the Same.

For now, we’re enjoying the freedom and flexibility of planning trips with just the two of us. Prioritizing Ourselves and Our Quality Time Has Only Made Our Mariage Stronger.

This isn’t the timeline we envisioned, but i don’t regret taching a few years to focus on ourselves and our travels.

I Hope Our Future Kids Will Be Proud that we followed out Dreams and Crossed All the Destinations off Our Bucket List.