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Pillow Talks

Episode 37: The Truth About Why We’re Child-Free

Pillow Talks

Vanessa & Xander Marin

Health & Fitness, Sexuality

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

One of the most frequent questions we get is, “Do you have kids?” Followed closely by “why don’t you have any?” While it hasn’t always been an easy journey, we’ve gotten to a place where we’re really comfortable and confident in our choice to be child-free. So today’s episode is all about how we got there! We get deeply vulnerable and yes, tears were shed. We’re answering your burning questions and discussing how we decided to be child-free, the way we told our families and how they reacted, and the feelings that come up around knowing we won’t have children.

Check out the show notes at: vmtherapy.com/episode37

Transcript

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0:00.0

Still, like, there's just a heaviness that weighs on me sometimes about like,

0:04.8

oh man, what are people going to think about us and like, how much do I have to explain?

0:09.4

And what kind of judgments are going to come up? Like, it's just, it's hard. It feels heavy sometimes.

0:19.2

Hello and welcome to the Pillotox podcast. We're your host, Vanessa.

0:24.0

And Zander Marin.

0:25.2

I'm a sex therapist with over 20 years of experience.

0:28.2

And I'm just a regular dude. We share the ups and downs in our relationship while giving you

0:32.8

step-by-step techniques for improving yours.

0:35.6

Make sure you subscribe for your weekly double date full of totally doable sex tips,

0:40.1

practical relationship advice, hilarious and honest stories of what really goes on behind

0:45.6

closed bedroom doors and so much more. It's the sex education you wish you'd had.

0:51.9

You're not married. Why oh, you are not as on all caps here.

0:59.2

You're not married. You don't burden children. I get it. Get married for tax benefits,

1:06.6

but don't say you're married when you don't burden children. That's the death and point of being

1:14.1

married. Ha ha. Y'all sound stupid. S-T-U-P-I-E-D. Interesting.

1:22.7

So this is the kind of comment that we get when we talk about the fact that we are in a child-free

1:29.8

marriage. I just have to laugh at this person calling us stupid when they could not even spell

1:36.9

stupid correctly. Also, burden children? I mean, we are child-free, so we are definitely not

1:44.4

burdening any of our children that we don't have. I assume they mean birth children, bear children.

1:51.4

I think bear, but burden. Also, they did it twice. The capitalization is wild here. Random

1:59.9

words, capitalized, random words in all caps. I also like that's the death period. They didn't

2:06.8

want to write definition out. They just wrote that's the death. There's no apostrophies anywhere.

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