My partner and I have been trying to conceive for three years and we keep having the same conversation about whether this means we're supposed to be parents at all, but we never actually talk about why we wanted kids in the first place. I think we're both afraid that if we examine it too closely, we might discover we wanted different things entirely.
More people experience this than they realize.
The difficulty of conceiving is forcing a reckoning with unexamined assumptions about parenthood that may reveal fundamental differences in purpose and desire.
“Where Are You with The philosophy of parenthood — why and what for?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.