When you're about to have kids, your allegiance involuntarily shifts to other parents.

There's definitely a major loss of shared purpose that accompanies lower fertility.

Undisciplined

mostly_harmless

Reality fracture

elvismercury

Appreciate the context.

Interesting to consider that having kids is, itself, one of the handful of anchors common to many people's experience -- something foundational and primal.  The falloff in having children becomes, therefore, an additional cut line tethering us to each other.