Whether to have another kid (and other impossible decisions)
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Whether to have another kid (and other impossible decisions)
“Well … you know that every woman I know in London with a long-term partner who also wants kids … they usually try to get pregnant at 34.”
“Why?” he asks.
How to explain this to him? It wasn’t merely that women are told that at age 35 our fertility begins to decline. Thirty-five has also become this huge scary destination that we’ve been warned about
... See moreJane was preparing to go off the pill, and having a small freak-out about it.
J. Courtney Sullivan • The Cliffs: Reese's Book Club: A novel
It can be worth forgoing marriage for sex, and it can be worth forgoing sex for marriage. It can be worth forgoing parenthood for work, and it can be worth forgoing work for parenthood. Every case is orthogonal to all the others. That’s the entire problem.