You will never be ready for children

I was chatting with a coworker about children. She was in her late 20s, married, out of college, in a good job, and buying a house. “I just don’t feel ready to have a child,” she said. “But my husband wants one.”

She paused for a moment. Then she said, “I just want to be ready.”

She must have said that two or three times during our conversation. It fel…