I Can’t Have Kids and My Friends Are Pregnant

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Feelings & Co.

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 81 minutes

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On today’s episode, we hear from Cora Danielson, a comic who has been wrestling with something many women do – her inability to have children despite wanting them very, very much. Her outlet? Improv comedy and the community that came with it, offering her people she could always confide in. Now, two of the women in her group are pregnant and it’s messing with Cora’s head. Her friends haven’t told her they’re pregnant because they don’t want to hurt her feelings, so she heard it from someone else. She feels, overwhelmingly, like they pity her. Today, Nora’s talking to Cora and answering the question many of us have held quietly in our hearts, “How do you deal with being the object of pity?” Watch us on YouTube here! Get this episode ad-free here! Listen to Geoffrey’s album on Spotify and Apple! _ Refresh your wardrobe with Quince. Go to Quince.com/TFA for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too. That's Quince.com/TFA to get free shipping and 365-day returns. ⁠Quince.com/TFA⁠ Shop my favorite bras and underwear at ⁠SKIMS.com⁠. After you place your order, be sure to let them know we sent you! Select podcast in the survey and be sure to select our show in the dropdown menu that follows. Right now, our listeners get an additional 15% off any annual membership at MASTERCLASS.com/TFA. That’s 15% off at ⁠MASTERCLASS.com/TFA.⁠ With evening and weekend course options, Fordham’s online MSW lets you keep working while earning your degree, completing the program in as few as 16 months. Learn more and apply at ⁠fordham.edu/TTFA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Now, are all the traitors present?
0:02.0	Let's get started, shall we?
0:04.0	From rags to riches.
0:06.0	I'm so sick of this.
0:07.0	Working like a dog and being treated worse.
0:09.0	Yorkshire to New York.
0:10.0	Or climbers, you and me.
0:12.0	A life dedicated to revenge.
0:14.0	Let's make this an occasion to remember.
0:17.0	A woman of substance on Channel 4, stream now.
0:20.0	There once was a woman who lived in a shoe.
0:23.0	A size too snug, but what could she do?
0:25.9	But that's not where her story ends.
0:28.4	Thanks to a little help from her experience, friends,
0:30.9	she got her score into much better shape
0:32.9	and relocated to a box fresh new place,
0:35.9	with room to grow and a mortgage to suit.
0:39.1	Now, she lives in a spacious four-bedroom cowboy boots.
0:43.3	Better your Experian credit score to help get mortgage ready.
0:46.5	Experian, better your score, better your story.
0:59.5	Hi. Hi, hi there. Hi, Hi, how are you there? Hi. Hey, Nora.
1:16.2	I'm Nora McInerney, and this is thanks for asking, a call-in show about what matters to you. There's a moment from early widowhood that I still haven't forgotten, even though it has been
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