8 Truths to Consider if You Want Kids & Your Partner Doesn't

Traditionally, after you've married the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, thoughts and questions start popping up about whether or not you and your partner want  to (or will) have children.

If you're someone who doesn't want kids, you might feel like friends, family members, and even people you've briefly met make you out to be some kind of outcast. Or, what if you want children but the person you love and have committed to has no interest in becoming a parent?

Before kicking your partner to the curb, you might want to consider these eight truths written by psychotherapist, relationship expert, and author, Abby Rodman, LICSW:

1. Look back, look ahead
2. All about you
3. No going back
4. An alternative scenario
5. Help!
6. Why bother?
7. Guess what, mom?
8. An author's two cents

Rodman joins host Melanie Cole, MS, to share the eight truths to consider if you think you might want kids but your partner doesn't.