This was a fantastic interview, and really made me second-guess what I'd want to do with my future. I'd want to have kids eventually, but I definitely don't want to give somebody the power to ruin my life - emotionally and/or financially.
If you want to have kids eventually, it's a good idea to have a stable long term relationship in place. Most middle class + people do that through marriage. I don't think marriage is a necessity for having children. Marriage is a false sense of security for most couples. Most married couples that have children will end the marriage before the oldest child graduates high school (age 18). It often happens before the oldest child finishes 8th grade (age 14).
In the late 2010s, I asked one of my male friends why he chose to get married. He was living with his girlfriend when he proposed marriage. They were in their first year of living together. In theory, he could have kept living her for many years. He said that he proposed when he did because he wanted a future with her and a stable home for any future children they may have had. I think he could have done that without the marriage, but maybe he couldn't have. Earlier in 2025, I was with this friend and his wife one night. She claimed that she would have dumped him had he not proposed marriage by the end of their first 12 month lease living together. She never verbalized that ultimatum to him (unlike another male friend I know who received an ultimatum date for proposal). Since he did propose in that time frame, that breakup never happened. He may have also felt that pressure to propose marriage without her even saying it.
I have not had any children in my LTRs. None of my LTRs have gotten close to having children. The majority of the women I've had sex with have been on birth control while they've been having sex with me, so they weren't prioritizing children when they were with me.
Caleb Jones (aka Alpha Male 2.0, Blackdragon) did post an article once about the decision about whether or not to have children.
This is one of the most important topics I’ve talked about on this blog for a while, and a very serious issue. I see way too many of you guys literally flirting with disaster while your entire future teeters on a cliff. A while ago...
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My dad told me the story about his first wife. He met her in college and got a job offer in New York to pursue his dreams as an artist. This would take him away from this woman, so she gave him the ultimatum: stay with her, here in Delaware...or break up for his work. He chose the former.
This is a common scenario for men in long term relationships in their senior year of college. This can also happen with women in their senior year of college and they are dating a sophomore-junior male, though that's a less common occurrence. The more common occurrences are senior male in an LTR with senior female or senior male in an LTR with freshman-junior year.
In senior year, I committed to the idea that I wasn't going to let any romantic relationship dictate my post senior year plans.
Most males who are getting sex while in college are getting sex due to a committed relationship. On college campuses, very few men can get regular, casual short term sex. The men on campus that get short term, uncommitted sex are intercollegiate athletes, guys in the top tier fraternities with good physiques, and some guys who aren't part of fraternities that have good physiques. There's also the outlier guys from wealthy families who might be able to uncommitted sex due to family money, typically by showing off a great car or other possessions while on campus. Outside of those guys, a male is probably going to need to get into some sort of committed relationship to find sex on campus.
Plans after graduation are often issues in college formed relationships.