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If you're in your early 20s, don't sweat it. Mid to late 20s and you need to think deeply about what you want in life and what's stopping you from having it, and whether spending it with a partner and building a family is even important to you... and it should be because, unless you're planning on doing a Greta and saving the world sacrificing your own comfort and even life or going the Roger Penrose/Isaac Newton approach because you're a once in a generation genius and devote your life to understanding the physical universe (and I think Roger P. is married too!), nothing else you'll do will be as selfless and righteously productive as that. Same goes for early 30s and up, of course, but by then many people have already made their decisions. There's virtue in knowing you're too incomplete/chaotic of a human being to bring some kids you won't raise competently into the world so you don't just do it regardless of pressure, too.
Regardless, as long as your balls are working fine/don't mind adopting, whatever change/growth you need to go through is almost certainly possible. 👍