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The ugly truth is that while Piper has only a couple of years to make this decision, Larry has something like TWENTY or more years to think and re-think and re-think and analyze what he wants to do about procreation.
Piper is actually dead on the money here -- Larry has the option to change his mind, much later on, and marry a 27 year old girl with peppy ovaries. Women have a use-by date -- men do not. (OK, actually they do, but it's like 80.)
Reading between the lines, I feel that Piper doesn't really want to have kids and Larry probably does...much later on in life. So that's probably how it's gonna work out.
Another little reality check: a guy who waits EIGHT YEARS to decide you are worth marrying is already revealed himself as very, very ambivalent. It doesn't take an adult eight years to decide if you are "the one" or not.
I hope Piper is OK with all this, because she seems like a very cool lady. Otherwise, it's the same old ugly truth as always.
