Do you think having kids has or will change your relationship with your partner?

On many levels my relationship with my husband has changed. Good and bad. We had a rough go at it the first few years. Less communications, troubled relationship, but at the end of the day we learned a lot. It changed "us" but in hind sight I feel the changes were definitely for the better. But it did take time to get to the good part. We had to learn how to be friends and partners in a different way. We both always wanted kids, that was never a question. We just got used to "our way" of life for over 9 years and then we had to reconcile a 3rd person in the relationship and then the 4th person. We found our new rhythm and it was all worth the growing pains. We learned more about each other than I think we would have of in this timeframe if we didn't have kids. I actually think we learned to appreciate each other more. We have our bad days, but we also know that they are just bad days and the good days overshadow them. One thing is for sure, our kids gave us the gift of being stronger people for each other.