Brett Cooper
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77% feel like they have less of a village than their grandmother's generation.
But I'm sure it also doesn't help that, especially if you live in a very liberal cosmopolitan area, like I'm sure these mothers do, 30 years old, I'm guessing very liberal, that so few of your friends also have children.
feel even more isolating even if your spouse wanted the baby and even if he is involved.
Like, I'm sorry, but your husband wanting to be a dad is not enough to carry you through.
You have to be on board because it is a sacrifice.
It is the most beautiful sacrifice, in my opinion, that you will ever make.
It is worth it to me every single day because it is so beautiful, but it is hard.
It is a sacrifice that makes it all the more fulfilling, but still, you gotta be fully bought in.
Now to tie this back to something going on in pop culture right now, all of this reminds me so much of one of the storylines from the current season of Love is Blind that is currently going viral right now.
It also has to do with a mother's regret and also not being sure if you want to have children.
So for one of the pairings, Emma and Mike, the big hurdle that they have had to overcome is whether or not they would want to have children if they actually got engaged.
So man, the Mike is very serious about being a father.
Like they're in the pods.
The whole premise of Love is Blind, if you don't know, is that you don't see each other.
You're like divided by a wall, talking, you're dating, you decide who you want to marry after only like 10 days of being in these pods.
Anyway, he's sitting in the pods talking to this girl, Emma, constantly talking about wanting to have children, wanting to be a dad.
And the girl, Emma, for many various reasons, isn't sure.
You know, she was adopted.
She has had chronic health issues that she's worried about passing on.
She doesn't know genetically what she's carrying.