Ep. 3: The struggle to assert autonomy and defy expectations, with Aarti
I'm excited to share this new episode of Bad Mothers, because it's my first speaking to a fellow child-free person. I've noticed that many people assume that the reason I don't have children is due to my fraught relationship with my mother. It's a reasonable thing to think, so I wanted to meet more women who are child-free and estranged. Were they, like me, never really inclined to have children, or have their mothers played a role in some way?My guest today, Aarti, has not stopped contact with her mother, but she lives very far away. Aarti lives in the US, and her mother in India. They have…
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