My partner and I have been together for 7 years now and we are still very much in love, both employed, non smokers with a small dog and live in a lovely small village which has a great community everyone knows and looks after one another. My partner has 2 grown daughters who live with us though 1 has been accepted for uni and will start in september her younger into college. Clearly she knows how amazing motherhood is and has been mostly a single mother, I think she's done well though I yearn for a child of my own and I'd love to have a child with her. I've not had much luck unfortunately I lost my brother, grandparents then mother which was really hard for me which makes me want a child maybe that little bit more as I have no family though by no means is it the reason we want a child together. A few years on Ive now dealt with my grief which needed to be addressed before we made this step, we just feel the times right.