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'Back off and wait for us to be ready': Childfree couple snaps when tenacious parents pressure them to have kids immediately

When you're in your late 20's or your early 30's, if you've been in a semi-stable relationship for more than 5 minutes, nosy relatives start coming out of the woodwork. You've heard the phrase 'it takes a village', but never thought it meant the village coming after your ever-fruitful loins, chasing you with baby-mongering pitchforks and flaming fertility torches. 

As if there's a ticking time bomb on your chest, aunties and uncles you barely know start feeling entitled to offer you their unsolicited opinions about your biological clock and the urgency of having children as soon as possible. Regardless of how unprepared you are to have children or how apparent it is that you can't afford a child right now, your family never seems to understand the simplest of answers: We're not ready. 

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Posted by Jesse Kessenheimer
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