DEAR ABBY: I was with the same person (my first “everything” guy) for 23 years. A few years after the shock of a divorce, I met someone 10 years my junior. He makes me feel I’m the most beautiful woman in the world, complimenting on what my ex considered my faults, showing I am still a sexy, desirable woman and making me feel like I matter in this world.

The problem is, despite him saying he could live without having kids (I’m almost 50), I fear it may be something he’ll regret or resent me for down the road if we stay together. His friends keep trying to fix him up with younger women “because he’d be a good dad,” and it breaks my heart to think this might be what tears us apart when we haven’t yet put a label on what we are together.

I don’t want to hold him back from a life he may have

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