Staying Podcast

Staying: This is a podcast conversation about an essay called Staying from the book Ghosts of Parenting. The episode explores staying as one of the quiet, enduring realities of parenting, not as commitment, resilience, or sacrifice, but as a lived condition that unfolds across years. It names how staying shows up in ordinary days, emotional fatigue, unresolved moments, and ongoing responsibility, and how it carries both love and strain without promising comfort or reward. The conversation gives language to the invisible labour of remaining present in an unequal relationship, explains why staying can feel heavy when it is unrecognised, and how clarity softens that weight by revealing staying as a structural part of parenting rather than a personal failing.