James Sexton
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5,249 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 5 May
James Sexton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So I think when you're newly married, of course, you're newly married, it's excitement, it's early days, it's, you know, the intoxication we were talking about earlier.
Then I think very often within the first five to seven years, there's the presence of the first child, right?
And the first child creates a tremendous bond between two people.
They see each other in a different way.
It creates some stresses too.
It creates some fatigue.
Very well, yeah, yeah.
But it also, in addition to creating fatigue and stress and those kinds of things, it also, you fall in love with a different version of your wife.
She's not just your wife now, she's also the mother of your child and you watch her with your child and you kind of go like, oh, look at how our child loves her and how much I love the fact that she loves this child.
And I'm sure she feels the same way.
She looks at you and she says, oh, like, it's not just my husband now, this is also, you know, like my little, you know, my child's father, you know?
Like, and that's a very, like,
a new person you're falling in love with again after a few years of that you know around the kids three five maybe goes off to school now we start to have again because this is a multivariate equation we start to have a loss of identity because now the child is not as dependent i mean what other species other than humans come out that half form that helpless right like we
We come out completely half-formed and hope whoever's waiting on the other side is going to fill us in.
So this is something that there is an extended period of time you're just coming out the other end of where this is a helpless creature.
So after that passes, and now this child has a little bit of autonomy and agency and kind of is doing its own thing a little bit,
there is a sense of a little loss of identity.
There's a little loss of the hands-on nature of that project.
That can start to create in people a sense of distance from each other or of reconnection to each other if it's handled the right way.
If it's handled the right way, it can be an opportunity to say, hey, this organism's not as dependent on us now in that time that we used to have together that we've lost.
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