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Parenting is complicated. Parents are complicated. And not every person who becomes a parent actually wants to be one. These are stories of complicated families from the archives of Terrible, Thanks for Asking. Available ad-free for Apple+ subscribers, whose support makes our work possible.

28/11/2023 • TTFA PREMIUM ONLY

Loving into the Future

Kelly's story is one about multiple losses — the loss of her dad, and then her grandpa. Both men were the backbone of her life. When she loses her dad, it's a painful surprise. When she loses her grandpa, it feels like the beginning of a curse. It takes meeting her husband and becoming pregnant with her first child for Kelly to realize that she wants to leave a tangible legacy of her love, just in case she also leaves her family too soon. If you enjoyed last week's Premium mailbag episode about magical thinking, you'll love the narrative structure in this episode — there's a fun coincidence-that's-not-quite-coincidence moment in this episode that's definitely magical.

46 min
07/09/2023 • TTFA PREMIUM ONLY

Bonus Episode: 7 Years of Love and Memory

Nora’s best friend Moe — our very first guest ever on TTFA — is back for a catch-up chat and to share reflections on raising her preteen son without her husband Andy, who died by suicide. You can listen to Moe’s original episode, “In Love and Memory,” wherever you’re listening to this episode. Thank you for being a TTFA Premium subscriber! We appreciate you.

53 min
16/05/2023 • TTFA PREMIUM ONLY

Wide Open Spaces

Five years ago, on Mother’s Day, Katie was sitting in prison, far from her kids. She couldn’t hug them, she couldn’t kiss them. It was at that moment she decided she would completely change her life so she could be with them again. But changing her life required a lot of help that didn’t exist in prison. Then one day, she opened a book in the prison library and a brochure fell out. It was for a place called Benevolence Farm, and they could help her change her life. If you want to help Benevolence Farm continue helping formerly incarcerated women in North Carolina, you can shop the Farm’s products here or make a donation to their programs here.

53 min
18/04/2023 • TTFA PREMIUM ONLY

Courtney's Secret Garden

Courtney Maum is having a midlife crisis. Parenting is taking so much of her time. Her writing career is going well, but that means she’s overwhelmed by deadlines and book deals. Her marriage is in a rough patch, and when she starts asking herself “should I have an affair?” and “should I become an alcoholic?” she recognizes she needs a change in her life. She dreams of finding an escape that brings her back to her childhood passion of being outside for hours, lost in her thoughts. In this episode, we follow Courtney as she tries to find her Secret Garden. Courtney is an author, her most recent book The Year of the Horses is a memoir about rediscovering herself through her love of horses. Nora recommends her fiction: I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You and Touch.

45 min
28/02/2023 • TTFA PREMIUM ONLY

Should I Have Kids?

TTFA producer Claire McInerny experienced an extreme weather event in 2021, a result of climate change, that left her worried about the future. She started channeling her anxiety about the future of our world into another important question she was asking herself: “Should I have kids?” In this episode, Claire tries to untangle her feelings around what the world will look like in the future with her desire to have a family of her own.

40 min
20/09/2022 • TTFA PREMIUM ONLY

Para-Mom

When Leah Nixon woke up in the hospital after a construction accident and learned she was paralyzed from the chest down, she wondered how she’d go about starting a family someday. In this episode, she gives us a glimpse into her daily life as a “para-mom” to her 9-month-old daughter, Ellie.

41 min
13/09/2022 • TTFA PREMIUM ONLY

Overthinking About You

Allison Raskin was just 4 years old the first time she told her parents she wanted to die. Within weeks, the preschooler was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder and depression. In this episode, we talk with Allison and her mother Ruth about raising a child with severe mental illness and what Allison’s world looks like today as an adult living with OCD.

42 min
03/05/2022 • TTFA PREMIUM ONLY

Motherless Day

Some holidays are just more loaded than others, depending on our individual experiences. When you’re grieving the loss of your mother — either because they’ve died or because you don’t have a relationship with them — what the heck are you supposed to do with a holiday like Mother’s Day? When a listener reached out to Nora after their mom died to ask for advice on moving forward, Nora decided to tap into the Terrible Rolodex of accidental grief experts … past TTFA guests and listeners and friends of the pod who have been there. Special thanks to Kate Spencer, Jessica Pearce Rotondi, Kari Harbath, Megan Palmer, Danielle Henderson, Dani Shapiro, Dr. Anna Roth, and TTFA Listeners Jeremy, Shana, and Analisa.

53 min

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Parenting is complicated. Parents are complicated. And not every person who becomes a parent actually wants to be one. These are stories of complicated families from the archives of Terrible, Thanks for Asking. Available ad-free for Apple+ subscribers, whose support makes our work possible.