CALLER tells RABBI she doesn't want children

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shais Taub’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

so you're on you're on live with us what would you like to talk about um okay I've never done this before so okay um can I just go back to my email and read kind of what I wrote maybe okay but I think it'll be more compelling for people who just speak from the heart okay sure okay sorry I just got nervous okay um so I'm 31-year old female I've been married for eight beautiful years and without children by personal choice okay my husband desires children very much I do not but when looking back at childhood I imagined my life Married with Children and when I met my husband I still desired a growing family at some point like not right away but eventually so the one thing that has changed uh is I experienced trauma um I battled cancer two years after like our wedding I was like 26 27 years older when I battled cancer in like Brash I'm in remission thank God yeah um yeah so there's trauma there okay so anyone who's ever dealt with trauma you deal with it to a certain point you feel trauma free and then you dig a little more and there's more and there's always more so right now I could tell you I'm 100% you know I've done the work but we know that there's always more work to be done anyway um yeah so my husband is amazing understanding talk

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