La Vida Más Chévere de Childfree Latinas Paulette Erato

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!What's the fastest way to offend your potential wedding guests? Commenters on Threads and Instagram posted a million different options for telling people to leave their "trophies" at home. In Part 5 of the childfree wedding series, childfree couple Paulette and Ryan are once again reading through the crudest yet humorous ways to say "come enjoy an adults-only good time at the childfree wedding."Trigger warning: if colorful euphemisms for kids is no...

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!What's the "proper" way to tell your guests you want a childfree wedding? From the etiquette of hosting an adult-only affair to the most tactful ways to convey this message to your guests, we're all over this sometimes-taboo topic.Childfree couple Paulette and Ryan Erato have some experience in this arena. And after going viral on Threads for asking the question, "what do YOU think is the classiest way to say “this is a childfree wedding?”, with ov...

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!Part 3 in the childfree wedding series comes to us in the form of an email from Vivian, a now "retired" childfree housewife. Vivian's wedding planning started off as a wild ride navigating family expectations, Catholicism, and even some social shaming, all because she dared to say "I don't want kids." Having now been married for over 20 years, her life's been a winning combination of freedom, happiness, and amazing adventures (including a home ...

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!Burnout isn't a gold medal earned at the Exhaustion Olympics. It's totally avoidable, but in our hustle culture, we often wear exhaustion like a badge of honor. Trust that there's nothing honorable about sacrificing your health. Take it from someone who has suffered the consequences!Us childfree Latinas are especially susceptible to this because we're raised to thrive on resiliency, sacrifice, and people pleasing. For many of us, that's how our par...

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!What happens when you’re suddenly abandoned by your pack?Loneliness is a universal human emotion that can often go unaddressed and underestimated in its impact. In a society where the focus is too often on productivity and success, acknowledging feelings of isolation and vulnerability can be perceived as a weakness. In this heartfelt episode, host and childfree Latina Paulette Erato shares her personal journey navigating the complicated emotions around l...

Wanna share your thoughts? Send a text!"Where are you from?" is a question asked all too often of people who are visibly "not white." So what does it mean to be American in a melting pot of immigrants? Picking up where we left off last time, guest Amanda reflects back on her 5 years in Japan and we touch on certain taboo topics like:race vs ethnicity vs nationalityhow the Koreans are the Irish of Asiagovernments' attacks on low birth ratesthe cult of parenthoodparental regretHost and ch...