I Want a Third Child (but My Husband Doesn’t)

The Dr. John Delony Show

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Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Relationships

4.8 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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0:00.0	Big news.
0:02.7	New dates for money and marriage getaway just dropped for Valentine's Day weekend 2026.
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0:20.6	My question is about when you have a different image of what the future looks like with your spouse.
0:26.2	My husband and I have two children today.
0:28.5	They're under the age of five.
0:30.0	We feel extremely blessed, and we're just kind of soaking it up together.
0:33.3	However, I would like a third child, and he is a hard no.
0:36.5	I think the true honest conversation is...
0:43.3	What up? What up? This is John with the Dr. John Deloney's show.
0:48.7	So can you call from all over the planet?
0:52.0	That's your mental and emotional health and your marriages and your kids and whatever else you got going on in your life. Real people going through really tough stuff. Let's go to Rockville, Maryland. Dude, I should have been born in a place called Rockville. Rockville, Maryland, and I should have been born actually in Poserville. And talk to Tara. What's up? Tara, how are we doing?
1:14.5	Hi, Dr. John. Thanks for taking my call. Of course. How are you?
1:20.4	I'm good. I am a big fan. I love what you're doing. You're the best. I appreciate you.
1:28.1	What's up? So my question is about when you have a different image of what the future looks like with your spouse.
1:35.1	Okay, tell me more. So specifically, my husband and I have two children today. They're under the age of five. We feel extremely blessed and we're just kind of soaking it up together. However,
1:40.8	I would like a third child and he is a hard no. And I know that it would be chaos and
1:46.9	hardship to bring another kid into the family. But I also know it would be beautiful. I just don't
1:52.8	want to push him to a place of resentment if we do take the plunge. So how have y'all talked about it?
2:01.3	Well, for context, my husband has never really been a hard yes on anything.
2:06.5	Like, I've kind of led us into the future on all of the big life steps from moving in together, getting married, pets, kids, all of it.
2:14.5	So whenever I bring it up, it's like a knee-jerk reaction.
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