Encore: Baby or Bust

Dear Sugars

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

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2023

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

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0:00.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:09.0	Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears.
0:14.0	I'm Cheryl Strait.
0:16.0	I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.
0:19.0	Oh dear son, won't you please?
0:25.0	Share some little sweet days with me.
0:32.0	I check my bell vibes every day.
0:41.0	Oh and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:49.0	Hi Cheryl.
0:50.0	Hi Steve.
0:51.0	How you doing?
0:52.0	I'm great.
0:53.0	Well we're going to talk about babies today or not no babies.
0:56.0	Baby or bust is the theme of today's episode.
1:00.0	Right.
1:01.0	We get a lot of letters from people who either...
1:03.0	Not from babies, we should clarify.
1:04.0	These are from four babies.
1:06.0	I'll grown ups and some of them want babies and they have some barrier to getting them.
1:11.0	Right.
1:12.0	Some of them don't want babies and they're with partners who really do want them.
1:16.0	So we're going to discuss this issue from many different angles.
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