Rewind: Baby or Bust

Dear Sugars

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Dear, Steve Almond, Society & Culture, Wbur, Cheryl Strayed, Sugar, Boston, Advice

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🗓️ 30 May 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This episode was originally published on March 22nd, 2017.

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. In this favorite episode from the archives, 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.

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0:27.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:32.3	Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears.
0:37.4	I'm Cheryl Strayed. I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio. Oh, dear song, won't you please? Share some little sweet days with me.
0:55.0	I check my love bags every day.
1:03.0	Oh, and the sugar you see in my way.
1:13.0	Hi, Cheryl.
1:13.9	Hi, Steve.
1:14.8	How you doing?
1:15.5	I'm great.
1:18.8	So we're going to talk about babies today or no babies.
1:22.6	Baby or bust is the theme of today's episode.
1:23.1	Right.
1:25.7	We get a lot of letters from people who either... Not from babies.
1:26.5	We should clarify.
1:27.2	These are from full-grown people, right.
1:28.8	All grown-ups.
1:29.7	And some of them want babies, and they have some barrier to getting them.
1:33.8	Right.
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