No money, no baby
This Is Uncomfortable
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4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Carrie Mansmith and her wife, Natalia, both know they want to be moms. They fantasize about raising a baby together, fawn over onesies, and they even have a name picked out. But lately, they’ve been wrestling with a question that they each have very different answers to: How much money is enough money to bring a kid into the world?
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| 0:00.0 | Carrie and Natalia Mansmith know they want to be moms. |
| 0:06.3 | They fantasize about baby clothes, cribs, tiny socks. |
| 0:10.5 | Sometimes they scroll through TikTok or Instagram and fawn over other people's babies. |
| 0:15.5 | Talking to them, it's almost like their future baby already exists. |
| 0:19.8 | Well first of all, let's refer to him as Bryson, okay? |
| 0:22.6 | This is Carrie. |
| 0:23.6 | Bryson, he's had a name for a long time. |
| 0:25.7 | He's had a name since before we've gotten engaged, I believe. |
| 0:29.7 | And that's her wife and Natalia. |
| 0:31.6 | So Bryson, EJ, Mansmith. |
| 0:35.2 | You don't have to refer to him as that, but like this is how... |
| 0:37.3 | Well, no, we'll refer to him as Bryson, okay. |
| 0:40.0 | That's not weird. |
| 0:45.0 | Carrie and Natalia talk about this imaginary baby Bryson all the time. |
| 0:50.0 | At the breakfast table and the car during dinner. |
| 0:53.2 | But lately these conversations are breaking down. |
| 0:56.5 | Getting an angry silence or hurt feelings. |
| 1:00.1 | Because there's this one little thing that they're not on the same page about. |
| 1:04.6 | Go ahead, Carrie, you started first. |
| 1:07.0 | We can't afford to have a kid. |
| 1:09.6 | Carrie doesn't think they're making enough to have a baby yet. |
| 1:12.6 | But Natalia doesn't want to let time slip away in case it becomes harder to get pregnant |
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