... in response to marriage, kids, posted by chevy on Dec 7, 2002I am also 48 and getting married in February to a 32 year old woman, who has never married or had kids. We plan on having children as soon as possible. I was married before to a woman who had 3 small children from a prior marriage. We never had children together, but I was married to her 13 years, from the time the children were small, until the last one grew up and moved out of the house.
I now regret not having children with my first wife, so I am looking forward to having children in this marriage. I don't think I will be able to be as physically active with this family as I was with my last one, because in my first marriage I would sometimes carry all 3 of them at once and carried the youngest one everywhere on my shoulders until she was almost 10. My body isn't up to that challenge anymore so it will be different this time around. But I also expect to be a more patient father than the first time around.
I think family and children are what life is all about. My future wife's parents were of similar ages as my fiancee and I are now when they married, her father being 20 years older than her mother. He is 79 now and my fiancee adores him so I don't think you have to be a young father to be a good father.
