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When couples struggle to align on timing for another child

My partner and I are trying to decide about having a second child and we keep having the same circular conversation where I bring up my concerns about my age and energy levels and they reassure me everything will be fine, but we never actually dig into what we both really believe about family size, my body, and what feels sustainable. I'm 38 and aware of the biological realities in a way that feels urgent to me but abstract to them, and I don't think we're actually hearing each other.

The deeper question

Partners are talking past each other about reproductive decisions because they're avoiding the deeper questions about bodies, time, and competing visions of family life.

Concept: embodied decision-making

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