Student loans have been a hot topic in recent years with rising college tuition and teases of loan forgiveness. If you have student loans, you get it. You can find yourself trying to pay them off after 5, 10, 15, or even 20 years after you graduate. This is one of the reasons why more and more people are choosing to forgo higher education and enter the workforce directly. This decision is valid, especially when considering the other rising costs in today’s society, such as having kids. We see more and more couples choosing to either not have children or wait until they are much older and financially stable.

Similarly, a man in this story had to choose between paying off his student loans and starting a family…so he decided to get a vasectomy. He found a wife who also didn’t want children, earned his master’s degree, found a job he loves, and lives happily with his wife and dogs. All that was great until we hit an unexpected twist in the story. Now, his parents are expecting him to give them grandkids. So, he informed them about his procedure in a matter-of-fact tone, and let’s just say they’re not very happy about it.