Hi Ms. Lexxi,
I’ve looked through the recent back-and-forth in your thread; it appears the main question of interest to you and your husband, which you have not yet resolved, is as stated in your post of 16 Aug. 2012:
lexxi said:
Late last year for hubby, and early this year for me, we both turned 30. We have always felt that someday we would like to start a family, but have postponed it for one reason or another. I think this milestone age of 30 has really made us think that it may be getting to be that time. Given our current "situation", there are a lot of questions that we must confront before going forward with this. I just wanted to let you know and see if anyone would like to give any advise or opinions. Thanks— Lexxi
and your subsequent post of 17 Aug. 2012:
lexxi said:
There are actually four choices if we have a child, as to the biological father:
1) My hubby,
2) A black man,
3) A white stranger,
4) A white man we know.
We are in the midst of discussing it now.
Obviously I can’t suggest, let alone state, how you should go about choosing a man to sire your first child. As you say, you’ll need to resolve that with your husband. If he’s open to any of the above 4 possibilities, that — of course — certainly expands your range of options.
A point to consider, among others, would be the question of why you married your husband. Setting aside the standard stuff of romance novels (“he swept you off your feet with his undying love,” etc.), I would guess he had qualities that caused you to conclude on some level, covertly if not overtly, that he would be a good life partner and father of your children.
That is, a women contemplating whether to marry a man similar in age when both are relatively young has to make a judgment re. whether her man is likely to be a good provider and father in the future, because she doesn’t actually know whether that will turn out to be the case. (A woman who marries an older man established in his business or profession, by contrast, knows a priori he will be a good provider because he has demonstrated that, but marrying an older man may have some disadvantages.)
In your case, now that some time has passed and it has turned out you are professionally successful (I gather from your posts), while your husband turned out to be sexually inadequate (so you guided him into a “cuckold husband / hotwife” form of marriage which he has accepted), you might consider whether he has fulfilled your expectations in other respects or, alternatively, fallen short on multiple fronts.
If your husband is successful professionally or as a business man in his own right, and has generally fulfilled your hopes and been a good partner, but if he agrees it would be acceptable for you to seek impregnation by another man because of his self-acknowledged sexual shortcomings, and because he doesn’t want to pass his sexual shortcomings along to a son, then I suggest looking into the question of whether that’s a reasonable source of reluctance.
Suppose, for example, you decide you want your husband to be the biological father of your child. As you know, human DNA (like the DNA of all other species) is highly complex and, in addition, the DNA inherited by your son or daughter will be 50% yours — the other 50% will be contributed, of course, by your husband. Suppose also your child turns out to be male. Does your husband’s “inadequate equipment” imply your son would also have “inadequate equipment”?
This does not strike me as a simple question, because you too were sired by a man who, unbeknownst to you, may have been strongly sexual and had “more than adequate equipment.” Or, perhaps there were males in your husband’s family background who were “more than adequately equipped” but that potential, for some genetic reason or other, was not expressed in your husband. Furthermore, your child may turn out to be female — in which case this concern (if it is a concern) would be irrelevant.
If you and your husband want to make informed judgments re. questions of this nature, you’ll probably have to consult a geneticist (if that’s what such specialists are called). I don’t think it will be difficult to find such a person, nor will it be expensive. There are lots of couples concerned about the probability of some undesirable characteristic in the family background of one or the other, or both, being passed along to their children.
This is my first comment on the problem you and your husband are attempting to resolve. I’ll pass along some others a bit later.
—Custer