‘My Partner Wants Children, But I Don’t. Now What?’

This week’s “Esther Calling” caller has never wanted to have children, but his current partner does. Given their shared goal of staying together, he wants to know how to approach this “potential mismatch” in conversations.

Over the course of their conversation, Esther Perel helps the caller understand that his anxiety around having children stems from his general anxiety about the future and his feeling of disconnection from his family. The caller left his home country to pursue a career in academia, and now that he’s about to finish his Ph.D., he is feeling more uncertain than ever about where his professional life will take him. Perel helps him understand that what he needs is to reconnect more deeply with his family, even if they are far away, in order to really understand his feelings about starting his own.

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