Sheridan Voysey is a presenter of Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2 and a regular contributor to other media (featured on BBC Breakfast, BBC News, Channel 5, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, ABC, Moody Radio, and in publications like The Times and The Sunday Telegraph joins us today from over the pond to chat about life as a couple without kids after struggling for years to have children. If you’ve struggled with infertility, broken dreams, or are navigating a life that isn’t going quite as planned, this conversation will speak to your heart. Please join us in welcoming Sheridan to this episode of The Modern Motherhood Podcast.
- What do we do when life doesn’t go as we plan it? How do we manage it?
- Merryn and Sheridan had a vision for life that included marriage and kids. When kids didn’t come along they faced a moment when they knew they had to rediscover their true identity. Hear more about what this was like.
- How do we discover our true identity?
- As they struggled to have children they became the “couple who was struggling to have kids.” Learn how that changed their marriage and what they learned.
- Hear how they made the decision early on to make sure their marriage wasn’t affected by their journey.
- We are bigger than the markers of our lives, our jobs, the fact that we may or may not be parents. What should we define our lives by?
- We hear from women a lot in this space, but what it is like as a man. Hear from Sheridan.
- Infertility is not a woman’s issue. It is a couple’s issue. -Sheridan
- Listen to how Sheridan and his wife finally made the choice to let go of the dream. Hear how they felt like they heard the no.
- The Making of Us: Who We Can Become When Life Doesn’t Go As Planned
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