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Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

121 | reasons people don't want kids

Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

539.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we read and react to reasons people don't want kids. Some of these are funny, some are serious but overall we just wanted to share a lighthearted episode reacting to reasons people have shared. There are many ways to live a fulfilled life and having kids is only one of them! We are sponsored by Athletic Greens! ▶ Visit athleticgreens.com/eastfam to take ownership of your health. Follow My Instagram ▶ http://www.instagram.com/ShawnJohnson Like the Facebook page! ▶ http://www.facebook.com/ShawnJohnson Follow My Twitter ▶ http://www.twitter.com/ShawnJohnson Snapchat! ▶ @ShawneyJ Follow AndrewsTwitter ▶ http://www.twitter.com/AndrewDEast Follow My Instagram ▶ http://www.instagram.com/AndrewDEast Like the Facebook page! ▶ http://www.facebook.com/AndrewDEast Snapchat! ▶ @AndrewDEast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up everybody welcome back to a couple things with Sean and Andrew a podcast all about couples and the things they go through today's episode was actually requested by you guys.

0:10.0

We are doing a form of a reaction podcast that's right reacting to why people don't want to have kids yes.

0:18.4

We pulled a ton of these statistics and thoughts and opinions from Reddit.

0:23.2

So we'll go through a lot of them and kind of unpack them and talk about them some are funny some are serious.

0:30.4

I do want to say that before we get started that if you are one of those that doesn't want to have kids we know every single person in the world has their own like journey and that's great.

0:41.0

I always say there's a lot of ways to live a good life and having kids is only one of them.

0:45.9

So if you don't want to have kids this is not in any way trying to like make fun of you. This is just us reacting to some of the reasons that we found on Reddit on Instagram.

0:56.8

The people said they don't want to have kids. So thank you for this idea. I'm pretty excited about this. I haven't read through all of these. So I think it's going to be funny.

1:06.2

Also it is worth noting that not everybody can have kids and we also empathize with you. So anyway hope you find this episode entertaining.

1:13.5

And before we jump into it, please subscribe to the show and give it a rating. And thanks for being here. Hope you're having a wonderful day.

1:20.3

Let me just brag on my wife. If this is your first episode listening to us, my wife is a boss. And she was an Olympian, answering to stars champion.

1:30.6

She's done a lot of cool things like TV shows. I'm just bragging on you. I'm just him. And

1:37.1

you want this to be reciprocated. I think the thing I'm most proud of you are of you is how do you say that sense? I think the thing I'm most proud of you for is your mom.

1:47.6

Thank you, baby. You're great. The mom. I do know for us, we were those we were two of those people that

1:54.7

we

1:56.5

always jump to being parents, whether that was adoptive or like biological. We just always wanted to be parents.

2:01.7

And so it truly when people requested this podcast for the other side of it, I was so excited because I love learning about people. I love learning about

2:12.7

playing Devils advocate, just hearing other people's opinions. I think it truly helps me understand people also to reciprocate.

2:21.1

My husband is a boss. So I did not. Vanderbilt MBA went on to play in the NFL, full-ride scholarship,

2:29.2

D1 athlete, phenomenal father. You were on American Ninja Warrior. That's right.

2:36.7

Multiple times. I did do that. Super mediocre performance is there. Stop it.

2:41.5

But also, Sean and I know people who have seven kids, 11 kids. We also know couples who are in their 70s and decided not to have kids.

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