My husband and I are child-free. Sometimes, I worry we’ll regret it.

I don’t know if a fear of ending up alone is a good enough reason to have kids, though.

My husband Lachlan and I live a pretty unconventional life. He’s 34 and I’m 43, and we’ve both been doing freelance remote work since we met while traveling in Nicaragua 10 years ago. We both left our respective home countries, Australia and Austria, got hitched at the same Nicaraguan hostel we’d met four years earlier, and built a life together in the Western Algarve in Portugal.