Innately, there is no doubt in your mind that you want children.

This has probably been something you have known you wanted ever since you were a child yourself.

When you are dating someone you really like who has told you they don’t want children, it’s tempting to think that this person will come around.

This is where you convince yourself that all he needs is to keep seeing how trustworthy, kind, and supportive you are for a little while longer, and he is certain to change his mind.

Sadly, a guy like this is usually resolute in where he stands, especially when he has already had a history of relationships with girlfriends who believed they could change his mind and never did.

Those past relationships ended in heartbreak for the girlfriends who thought they could win him over with their infectious personalities and loving attention.

If you choose to go the same route as these previous girlfriends, you are bound to experience the same painful result.

Knowing this, it’s much better for you to break up with someone like this.

Choosing to stay with him reinforces his mindset, which puts him in a power position.

One that he is likely to abuse the longer he is with you.

Getting quick and easy access to sex, emotional support, and affection can become addicting after a sufficient amount of time has passed.

This is where he chooses to lie to you so as to keep you hopeful that he will change his mind about wanting children, all the while he gets to keep reaping the benefits of having you in his life.

Over time, he tells you what you want to hear, knowing full well that this would motivate you to keep him in your life.

He makes empty promises about wanting to have children at an unspecified point in time, which makes you think that marriage and children are imminent.

As a result, you stick around, and your feelings for him deepen in the meantime.

Every time you bring up the subject of wanting children, he makes further empty promises about wanting the same thing but to wait for him to get to a certain point in his career, with his finances, etc.

This buys him more time.

Nevertheless, it’s all smoke and mirrors.

He is lying to you to keep you around for as long as he can so that he gets to keep reaping the benefits of having you in his life.

As the months and years go by, your emotions for him become so intense that it becomes that much harder for you to accept that he is leading you on and that he has no true intention to ever marry you and have children with you.

Too much time and emotional investment has been put into it.

Surely, this will be the year he finally proposes to you, marries you, and subsequently has children with you.

Unfortunately, you are left disappointed once again as yet another year goes by without you achieving any semblance of this goal.

Sticking around for a guy like this is only going to lead to a waste of your precious time and emotions.