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They smile at and laugh with you when you get home from work at night. They express their love for you in more ways than you can imagine before having them -- from silly bander to snuggly naps. They reward you with their excitment at mastering a new talent. Every evening they enable you to forget work and all of its stresses and focus on home, family, and how lucky you are to have people who love you. Giving love results in getting back love ten-fold. Its this giving and receiving of love that makes us happy and content. From my perspective, its the love that children freely and willingly offer their parents that makes them so precious and such a tremendous addition to one's life.
This still seems selfish, because this person is saying that the reward is unconditional love. That it's a great "love investment": " Giving love results in getting back love ten-fold. " A puppy can love you even more, i think.
Sounds dramatic but it's true. If you want to have that kind of feeling, that kind of love, toward another person, then parenthood is for you.
This seems really inspiring because it is selfless. If people only had children for this reason, there would be a lot more happy people in this world, because their parents didn't want anything from them in return. I suggest the author search within himself if he can be that man, and if he wants to be that man, and if not, forget it.
Also, i agree that trying to convince her seems horribly exploitative and manipulative. i was especially struck by the phrase "the womb was ajar," like she's some sort of babymaker.
