2026-04-14
6 分钟Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
Do you ever feel pressured or judged or critiqued because you don't have kids yet?
And I think you don't want to have kids, is that correct?
Yeah, no, it is.
So I want to actually hit on all of those because each that you mentioned, pressured, judged, or critiqued.
So let's stick with pressured, judged, or critiqued because those are very distinct flavors.
So at this stage.
I do n't get asked as much anymore because I 've been talking about it so consistently and trying to be as loving
and just straight up as possible about the fact that I 've never wanted kids.
And real about the fact that I chose, consciously or unconsciously, a man who already had a child.
So some part of me clearly wanted to be a stepmom because I am.
And I love my stepson and he's awesome.
So there's that.
But I've never wanted to have my own biological kids.
Why is that, do you think?
You know, I've also never wanted to get married.
I just think that.
We're all kind of born with these innate desires.
And sometimes we adopt the expectations of our family, of society, of the culture that we grew up in.
For whatever reason, I feel like I popped onto this earth with a very clear inner compass of the things