in Middle Eastern culture, it went without being said that people marry to start a family. Whenever I went on to explain that waiting was a choice we had made, they were totally confused. “Why did you get married, if you didn’t want to have children?” Why choose to leave your family to start a new family and then not try to have children? It seems bizarre, like registering for college with no intention to attend, or buying groceries with no intention of cooking.
