Ask Amy & T.J.: “I Got A Vasectomy. Then I Got Remarried and My Wife Wants Kids. What Do I Do?”
HELP! I Suck at Dating
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3.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Our reader, “Dad Can’t Decide”, asks Amy and T.J. in their Yahoo weekly relationship advice column about whether he should consider getting his vasectomy reversed. In this episode, Amy and T.J. commiserate with both sides, because these two know what it’s like to want kids with the person you love, even when it’s not biologically possible… and yet, they also get what an undertaking it is to start over when you thought you were out of the baby making business!
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| 0:36.1 | Hey there, folks. It is Monday, September the 8th, and someone wrote into us on our Yahoo |
| 0:42.4 | column asking for some advice. See, he's a dad. He's a dad to two kids, but his wife wants it to |
| 0:50.5 | be three. Only one issue with that. We're going to have to go through surgery to have any more kids. And with that, welcome to this very complicated edition of Amy and T.J. Our Ask Amy and T.J. edition. I say surgery, Rose, we're talking about a vasectomy. It's going to have be reversed. That's right. They're going to be any more kids here. And you said his wife, but maybe it's more specifically, should be noted, it was his new wife. See, I was trying. There was a tease. We were going to get to it. It was a tease, bro. I blew it. I blew your cheese. Wow. Okay. Well, anyway, yes, he was married, his first wife. They had two kids. He got a vasectomy. That's a lot of folks do that. They don't want anymore. They're good. They've got their kids. Then he gets divorced. Now he gets remarried. And now wife number two, four years into it. And she knew he got a vasectomy. He made that very clear while they were dating. But now she's asking him to have a reversal. |
| 1:46.3 | I don't know how extensive of a surgery this is. |
| 1:50.7 | To do it in the first place and then reverse it. |
| 1:53.4 | It sounds like it would be pretty extensive. |
| 1:56.4 | I think. |
| 1:56.8 | I don't know. |
| 1:57.7 | So it's basically, it's, so the having a vasectomy is, you know, you go in and you've got some discomfort, right? Now you kind of have to go through the same thing again. And here's the deal. It's not guaranteed. So it's not a for sure thing, but it gives you the possibility. And a lot of times you have to take even extra steps, extra measures. |
| 2:19.0 | If you've had a vasectomy reversed, |
| 2:20.6 | you might have to go through artificial insemination. |
| 2:23.3 | You might have, because then you can actually place the sperm that's active |
| 2:27.2 | into an egg. |
| 2:29.6 | So, yes, there are, you can conceive naturally, possibly, |
| 2:34.0 | but there's no guarantee. |
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