If you were able to, if a time machine popped up,

you're able to like use a time machine for free and like,

re-correct the course of your life, would you go back and

have not had a child? Yes.

Welcome back to other people's lives, I'm Joe Sanigato.

I'm Greg Daibeck. For anyone out there that would like to be a guest in our show,

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Just send us an email and we'll get back to you. Today, we're speaking to a woman who reached out

via email with the subject line, I hate being a mom.

And in her email, she said that she thinks this is a topic that isn't spoken about enough.

So we have her on the show today to speak about it. So thank you so much for being on the show,

first of all. Yeah, of course. Thank you so much for having me.

Yeah, so this is kind of a different first question, but what made you

send this email? Because like you said, just saying those words, I hate being a mom.

That's not something that you hear very often.

What pushed you to want to have this conversation today?

Yeah, it's very, very taboo. So I think I was listening to the episode with the child free movement.

And I think this was kind of an interesting

twist on it, because I think you know, had life not worked out the way that it would, I would

have been in a big advocate of that group now and just a very strong ally.

Something that doesn't get talked about, you know, like a whole lot, I think once you become

a mom, there's just this insane pressure to like be perfect and enjoy it and get all this,

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