Yumi Stynes
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1,797 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Yumi Stynes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Ladies, We Need To Talk · "I wish I'd never had them": the pain of regretting kids · 17 Aug 2026
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Yeah, and if women in numbers admitted that motherhood is kind of shit, then the whole structure of our culture and our society would start to disintegrate.
Yeah, we'd unionise
go to hell.
Some of the women Ella spoke to felt ripped off by the motherhood load, this burden of parenting being so much heavier on mums than it is on dads.
Even the fact that school finishes at 3.30 and work doesn't finish till 5.30.
It's like, what kind of trick is that?
It's not just the feeling of regret that these women carry.
It's the guilt of having the feeling in the first place.
And when those feelings are treated as taboo, women often suffer alone.
I
G and their new partner were having deep chats recently when G said out loud that they regretted having their daughter.
And their partner responded with calm and open curiosity.
What G means when they say they quit parenting is the really hard moments with their kid when they literally put their hands up in surrender.
Like,
It's in these high emotion moments that G most regrets having a child.
Ah, geez, we all have our moments when we're right on the edge of chucking it all in or wanting to.
Once G had opened up to their partner about regretting having had a kid, they eventually took their concern to a professional.
The therapist gave G a few books, but mostly she gave permission to have the feeling in the first place, and that helped.
Yeah,
Jay, if there is joy in parenting for you, where do you find it?
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