I say that about having kids with my current husband ... done the kid thing trying to get the teens through HS and get their asses out the door but sometimes, I think my biggest regret is that we didn't meet about 5 years before we did, I would have liked to have had a kid with a man who truly enjoyed and took pride in fatherhood.
You made the right decision, having kids with a bad (or the wrong) partner is
worse than raising them alone