{"podcast":{"title":"Dial Emma","slug":"dial-emma-5229217","podcast_index_feed_id":5229217,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/dial-emma/","website_url":"https://dial-emma.captivate.fm","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/b7c417be-5af5-4592-9ed5-5625277b90e6/3N1xeghE7WeF126v_oQELp2E.jpg","author":"Emma Reed Turrell","episode_count":141,"summary":"If you’ve ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here. Each week, I’ll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life’s stickiest moments. Got a tricky situation, emotional tangle, or just need a fresh perspective? I’d love to hear from you. Please do get in contact via my online webform here: forms.gle/gSE8Pa8HnqU2B2c59 For more trusted advice, please do give the show a follow on Instagram @dialemmapodcast (https://www.instagram.com/dialemmapodcast)","last_synced_at":"2026-07-20T04:18:04.410551+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dial-emma-5229217"},"episode":{"title":"\"I want children, but the love of my life doesn't\": How do we choose between the life we have and the one we long for?","slug":"i-want-children-but-the-love-of-my-life-doesn-t-how-do-we-choose-between-the-life-we-have-and-the-one-we-long-for","published_at":"2025-11-03T00:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dial-emma-5229217/i-want-children-but-the-love-of-my-life-doesn-t-how-do-we-choose-between-the-life-we-have-and-the-one-we-long-for","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dial-emma-5229217","url":"https://dial-emma.captivate.fm","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/bf85feeb-4513-4f44-a01e-ed0167a22748.mp3?aw_0_1st.showid=55a7e298-840a-4d74-83ea-9b2f7b730a36&aw_0_1st.episodeid=bf85feeb-4513-4f44-a01e-ed0167a22748","summary":"Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help. In this week's episode, I explore the sharp end of love - those crossroads where heart and future pull in opposite directions. Two listeners share life-defining dilemmas that ask the same haunting question: What do you do when your heart and your future don’t want the same thing? In our first letter, a woman faces the agony of wanting children, when her long-term partner does not. To answer it, I unpack the difference between change and self-realisation, how resentment grows in the spaces where love stands still, and why sometimes two truths can both be right but no longer fit together. In our second dilemma, a happily married listener confesses to falling in love with someone else. I delve into the anatomy of emotional infidelity, the unmet needs that lie beneath attraction, and the difference between a relationship that’s wrong and one that’s simply outgrown. If you have a dilemma for Emma, please fill out this form.  --- Dial Emma is hosted by Emma Reed Turrell, produced by Lauren Brook. --- Social media: Emma Reed Turrell @emmareedturrell Dial Emma @dialemmapodcast Email: contact@dial-emma.uk","meta_description":"Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of l…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1729,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dial-emma-5229217/episodes/i-want-children-but-the-love-of-my-life-doesn-t-how-do-we-choose-between-the-life-we-have-and-the-one-we-long-for/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dial-emma-5229217/i-want-children-but-the-love-of-my-life-doesn-t-how-do-we-choose-between-the-life-we-have-and-the-one-we-long-for.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}