Broody boyfriend?

LegacyUser

hi all,

just looking for some opinions on this please.

i'm with my newboyfriend just a couple of months. we're absolutely mad about each other and i am totally in love with him. i'm 25 and he is 31.

we are both open to each other that we are in this for the long term. however, last week i became an auntie for the first time, and he joked asking if it was making me want a baby of my own. later that evening he text and said that he wanted to be honest with me about something, and that he wanted to get me pregnant. i was surprised, and did ask why, and he said it was because he knew i'd make a great mum, and cos he wants to be with me forever, and that he can't wait to have kids with me.

i know we will have kids someday but i dont' see the rush. over the weekend we chatted and i explained that it's what i want someday, but not right now. even apart from the fact that we arent' together long, it is totally not the right time, as i want us to be living together for quite a while before we have kids, plus i'm only in a new job a couple of months, and there is loads of other reasons.

i had always said i didn't want kids till i am at least 30, and i know that having met my boyfriend that even regardlss of what he said at the wknd i would change that cos i don't want to wait another five years to have kids with him.

i guess i was just surprised that he said all this. even though he is a few years older than me and does want to be a youngish dad, it wasn't what i expected him to say.

i'm hoping also that seeing my new niece won't make me really want a baby of my own and decide to have one, even though it is not the right time, although i know that it feels very right (the thought of having a baby with him that is, as opposed to having one right now).

LegacyUser

I think you are together for too short a time to be thinking of having a baby together. You need more time together to get to know each other as a couple before you make the huge commitment of having a baby.