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When waiting for perfect conditions prevents life from happening

I've been planning to start a family for three years but I keep thinking I need to be more financially stable first and now I'm wondering if I'm just making excuses.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The way the desire for optimal circumstances can become a form of avoiding the fundamental uncertainty that life always involves.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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