5561 My 45 Year Old Wife Wants a Baby! Freedomain Call In

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we dive into the challenges of relationships and parenthood as a caller shares their struggles with their spouse's desire for another child. Through therapy and discussions, the couple faces a difficult decision regarding frozen embryos and expanding their family, leading to strains in their marriage. The caller shares their fertility journey marked by losses, IVF attempts, and a miscarriage, revealing the toll on their relationship. Stefan guides the conversation with empathy, highlighting the importance of open dialogue, mutual understanding, and prioritizing each other's needs in navigating the complexities of partnership and parenthood. The episode concludes with a reminder of the significance of intimacy and unity in maintaining a strong relationship amidst life's challenges.

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0:00.0	So click back story. I'm about to turn 40 this year. My wife is going to turn 45 in September.
0:08.0	Our daughter is going to turn three in July. She's our only child. Basically my wife is, I would say,
0:16.6	call it desperate for another child and I don't feel the same way. We have been going back and forth or about a year and a half trying to figure out what to do. We've done
0:28.5	couples therapy. We've had a lot of conversations. But we just cannot come through an agreement on this.
0:36.2	What prompted to call you is that we had a conversation the other day where she told me, I won't say accused me, I'll say told me that she thought it was
0:48.1	immoral for me not to agree to have another child with her.
0:52.6	And I thought that was kind of like,
0:54.4	all right, we're reaching a very not so good
0:57.8	territory in the conversation.
1:15.1	But so much has happened since we got married and until we got to this point that I guess we just need your help to kind of understand the situation and make sure we're thinking about each other's positions and the kind of overall situation the right way.
1:20.4	Right now of course the most obvious thing which I just wanted to get out of the way is 45.
1:26.0	Yeah, should be 45 in September.
1:29.0	How are you planning on having a baby with 45?
1:34.0	Well, she's just coming in.
1:37.0	Well, the natural way, we had, part of the story is we had some very unsuccessful and unpleasant IVF a few years ago and that's
1:49.2	didn't go very well so naturally is the way.
1:54.0	Say hi.
1:55.0	Hi, hi, nice to meet you.
1:58.0	Obviously, I'm never happy to meet people in difficult situations, but that's the way it is.
2:02.0	So I'm happy to meet and I hope that we can do some good.
2:05.8	I'm sure we can.
2:08.1	So have you looked up the statistics or talk to any fertility
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