Nadia Asparouhova | Cultivating agency
I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile, there were just more reasons in the “why not” column than the “why”: uncertainty about whether I’d be a good parent, fear of losing my identity, a lack of maternal instinct. Those reasons gradually faded away as I grew older and got to know myself better.
Nadia Asparouhova | Cultivating agency Cultivating agency | Nadia Asparouhova Nadia Asparouhova projects newsletter twitter <-- home Cultivating agency August 23, 2022 I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile, there were just more reasons in the “why not” column than the “why”: uncertainty about whether I’d be a good parent, fear of losing my identity, a lack of maternal instinct. Those reasons gradually faded away as I grew older and got to know myself better. I imagine this is not an unusual experience. Some people knew they wanted to hav
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