The Wall Street Journal had an article this week on how more twenty-something women are seeking fertility treatment at the first delay in conception:
“It’s the whole culture of wanting to have a baby when they want to have a baby,” says Cheri Lowre, an obstetrician-gynecologist and assistant clinical professor at University of California, Los Angeles’s medical school, who says she sees young women who want to plan their pregnancies around vacations or graduate school. “But getting pregnant takes time, it’s not a no-brainer.”
I laughed a little because I’ve met women who have exactly that mindset. Ambitious and driven, yes, but also lacking a certain grasp of reality and an ability to compromise.
One woman I dated last year in particular came to mind. She was a med student in Philadelphia, smart and fit, and we found plenty to talk about on the first date. Everything had to be to her convenience, though. Email instead of phone calls, even after meeting in person, and the second date discussion started with when I was coming into the city again on her schedule. Needless to say, things didn’t work out.
