Merle Bombardieri

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191 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 3 Jul

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It's Been a Minute · To be or not to be a parent · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

People usually just know when the energy has changed.

And what I love about this is so many people will just be so surprised.

They'll say, I thought I really was 50-50 and my child voice is so much stronger than I thought.

Or my child-free voice is so much stronger because I thought having kids is what people do and because my partner and my parents wanted it, of course I was gonna have a child.

And until I heard this voice,

I didn't realize that maybe my truest self and my happiest self would be a child-free person.

So you imagine you have a very, very large knapsack on your back and you're going on a hike that you're really enjoying.

And all of a sudden your baby is there.

And your baby kicks a hole in the knapsack and everything starts to fall out.

What's falling out?

And you can think of that symbolically.

It could be a tennis racket.

You know, it could be a typewriter if you're a writer.

It could be a lab beaker if you're a biochemist.

It can be imagining being able to wake up late on Sunday morning with your partner and not having to talk to anyone or do anything.

So looking, thinking about what's falling out.

One question is, how do you feel about that?

And it could be, that's horrible.

I would never do that.

I'm going to be child free.

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