Test the water for about 9 months

Bf and gf for about 2 or 3 years

Engagement lasts about 2 years

Then marriage

Honey moon

Then about a year later you considered kids

About 3 years total after marriage to have birth

Trying every single day

Takes roughly 10 years together

For baby day 1 inside hospital umbilical cord still attached

18 years on that + college

Looking at a 30 year investment minimum right there