Redux: Baby or Bust
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
You wants kids; your partner doesn't. Or your partner wants kids, and you don't. Whatever the scenario, few subjects are as emotionally charged and potentially deal-breaking in a relationship as a disagreement over the decision to become parents. The Sugars take on this tricky topic with the help of the writer Danielle Herzog, who's written in the past about ending her own marriage to become a mother. This episode was originally published on March 22nd, 2017.
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| 0:00.0 | Produced by the iLab at WBUR Boston. |
| 0:07.0 | The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick. |
| 0:18.0 | Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm Cheryl Strayed. |
| 0:25.0 | We've all meant this is dear sugar radio. |
| 0:55.0 | Hi Cheryl. |
| 0:59.0 | Hi Steve. |
| 1:00.0 | How you doing? |
| 1:01.0 | I'm great. |
| 1:02.0 | So we're going to talk about babies today or not no babies. |
| 1:05.0 | Baby or bust is the theme of today's episode. |
| 1:09.0 | We get a lot of letters from people who either are... |
| 1:11.0 | Not from babies, we should clarify. |
| 1:13.0 | These are from four babies. |
| 1:14.0 | All grown-ups and some of them want babies and they have some barrier to getting them. |
| 1:20.0 | Some of them don't want babies and they're with partners who really do want them. |
| 1:25.0 | So we're going to discuss this issue from many different angles. |
| 1:28.0 | We've obviously talked about parenting or the choice to become a parent in past episodes. |
| 1:34.0 | But this is kind of a fresh look on some of these dilemmas we've been getting in our inbox. |
| 1:38.0 | This is really a fundamental question. |
| 1:41.0 | If one partner wants to be a parent to have a child or children and the other doesn't or feels some ambivalence, |
| 1:48.0 | automatically they are in a dilemma. |
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