How To Decide To Have a Baby
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Megan is 35 years old, a lawyer, happily married — and suddenly not sure if she wants to be a mom. She always figured one day the maternal urge would kick in, but so far she's only felt ambivalence. Does that mean that she shouldn't have a baby? We asked Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild, how she juggled this question. She tells us the secret to approaching situations where there is no going back, and how regret — regardless of what we choose — is always part of the equation.
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| 0:30.2 | I think what we're both struggling with here, honestly, is that we don't really have language for actually telling the truth. |
| 0:39.7 | To have clarity and certainty about becoming a parent, you know, I think most people don't, |
| 0:44.8 | frankly. Right. You know, and even, even me saying that out loud to you right now, I'm like, |
| 0:48.2 | but, but, but I love them. I know. I love you, honey. You're wonderful. You're everything to me. |
| 0:57.0 | Welcome to how to. I love you, honey. You're wonderful. You're everything to me. Welcome to how to. I'm Charles Dupick. |
| 0:59.0 | Each week we talk to listeners who are trying to figure out how to solve one of life's |
| 1:04.0 | problems. |
| 1:05.0 | And then we do some research and we track down an expert and we get their advice. |
| 1:09.0 | And usually the way that we learn about a problem |
| 1:11.4 | is that they send us an email at how to at slate.com. And in fact, that's how we heard from |
| 1:16.3 | this week's listener, who had emailed us actually from halfway across the world. |
| 1:20.7 | Wait, let's see, is it crazy early in the morning in Australia right now? |
| 1:25.3 | Yeah, I'm in at the office at 7.30, which is, you know, a bit early. |
| 1:29.5 | This is Megan. She's a lawyer in Melbourne. She's 35 years old, married with no kids, |
| 1:34.7 | which is actually why she's talking with me on Skype today. |
| 1:37.8 | So I reached out to you really with a question of how one makes an irrevocable decision because my husband and I are now looking at |
| 1:48.2 | having kids. There's definitely no going back once you decide to go down from that path. |
| 1:55.5 | How long have you and your husband been married? |
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