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When couples avoid the deeper questions about parenthood

My partner and I have been talking about having kids for a year but we keep having the same surface-level conversations and never getting to the real questions — what if we disagree on parenting decisions, what if one of us feels trapped, what if we're not good at it. We're both scared to go deeper because what if we discover we want different things.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Two people must risk their comfortable uncertainty to discover if they're building toward the same future.

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