I took my husband's last name because I knew that if we do ever have kids, they'd automatically have his last name, and he didn't want to change his name to mine. Ever since then for every family gathering my brother would be asked when he's going to find a girl and have babies so he can "continue the family name."

He was 20 when I got married. He couldn't even legally drink yet and our dad and uncle expected him to have babies? This has been going on for nearly five years. He told our mom (our parents are divorced) how he feels almost pressured and he doesn't like it when they ask him that shit.

They do this mostly because I'm infertile in the "I would die if I got pregnant" kind of way. That doesn't mean that I can't have a biological child. It just means that we have less options, and those options are super expensive. I'm not even sure my child would count in their eyes because they'd have my husband's last name.

Not that it will ever happen. I'm almost positive if we ever have a kid, it'd be through adoption. I don't want to have a child inherit my blood disorder.