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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 214966" data-attributes="member: 158">Been there, doing that now. My wife and I are going down this exact road right now. We are at (PAST) the age where we are supposed to be &quot;settling down,&quot; having the 2.5 children, etc. But we feel no paternal or maternal instinct whatsoever towards having our own, and wondering what's wrong with us. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> It's a growing trend that many couples are having children either very late in life, or not at all - and as far as we are concerned, it's O.K.&nbsp;BINGO!I have learned over the years that the worst thing that can kill a hobby for you is to immerse yourself in it. The time in my life (recent up until this year) where I was ONLY taking in Genre stuff was the worst for my ideas and creativity ever.Just don't get back in like you used to be, Eric. You are the type that gives 125% to whatever you set your mind to, and that's not always healthy. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Doc Midnight.My advice follows same lines for you. If you find a hobby not fun, do something different. D&amp;D is not like smoking - you don't have to give it up forever. Play if the mood strikes you, do something different otherwise. Your best bet might be to organize &quot;board game night,&quot; or &quot;basketball night&quot; with your friends. Make it about the getting together and cutting up, not about the game itself. My friends and I play D&amp;D predominantly, but it's not really about the game - it's about the friends and the cutting up for the weekend. A good game night always recharges my batteries for the week, whether we played an RPG or just went out to see a movie together. There's only one thing that charges my batteries more, but that's just between me and my wife. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 214966, member: 158"] Been there, doing that now. My wife and I are going down this exact road right now. We are at (PAST) the age where we are supposed to be "settling down," having the 2.5 children, etc. But we feel no paternal or maternal instinct whatsoever towards having our own, and wondering what's wrong with us. :) It's a growing trend that many couples are having children either very late in life, or not at all - and as far as we are concerned, it's O.K. BINGO! I have learned over the years that the worst thing that can kill a hobby for you is to immerse yourself in it. The time in my life (recent up until this year) where I was ONLY taking in Genre stuff was the worst for my ideas and creativity ever. Just don't get back in like you used to be, Eric. You are the type that gives 125% to whatever you set your mind to, and that's not [I]always[/I] healthy. :) Doc Midnight. My advice follows same lines for you. If you find a hobby not fun, do something different. D&D is not like smoking - you don't have to give it up forever. Play if the mood strikes you, do something different otherwise. Your best bet might be to organize "board game night," or "basketball night" with your friends. Make it about the getting together and cutting up, not about the game itself. My friends and I play D&D predominantly, but it's not really about the game - it's about the friends and the cutting up for the weekend. A good game night always recharges my batteries for the week, whether we played an RPG or just went out to see a movie together. There's only one thing that charges my batteries more, but that's just between me and my wife. ;) [/QUOTE]

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