I didn’t think I’d ever want kids. There was so much I wanted to do/see during my life and I felt like having kids would get in the way. Two things changed when I got to my late 30s though. First, my wife’s sisters started having kids and I got to see how fun/crazy they are. Second, I started accomplishing a lot of the things I had wanted to do… I went back to school and got a graduate degree We got to travel the world and visit 50+ countries I built a successful business I achieved financial independence and was able to stop working I finally fulfilled my childhood dream of writing and releasing an album I don’t think I would have been able to achieve a lot of those things without the 5+ years of complete freedom that FI provided. So thanks to FI and my neices/nephews, I finally came around to the idea of having kids. But the prospect of being a parent is scary (especially to someone like me who is a big planner and a bit of control freak).…